OSLC Community Update and Introduction to PROMCODE

Get a quick update on the status of the OSLC Community [1], including the new Technical Committees at OASIS [2] and the upcoming OSLC Connect event at the ALM Forum [3], and an introduction to a new OSLC effort called PROMCODE [4], which is An Open Platform for Contracted Software Development Management of Software Supply Chains.

More details on PROMCODE:
Spreading of global software development and delivery, and offshore development is demanding change the way of software development management. Current project management is very ad hoc and proprietary specific to a vendor/developer, and project management relies on inaccurate data that takes a lot of time and manual effort to collect. This situation causes many disastrous troubles.
The PROMCODE consortium attempts to use standard data and technology to support it with OSLC framework so that project management data can be collected through a standard interface in a systematic and automated way while each organization can keep the conventional management method and tool unchanged. We have developed the PROMCODE interface specification for exchanging project management data based on the OSLC specifications, and a reference implementation of supporting tools on Eclipse/Lyo. We, six companies, conducted intensive experience with real project management data with the PROMCODE interface specification and its supporting tools. This talk introduces you the PROMCODE interface specification and its supporting tools.
Notes:
1. PROMCODE (PROject Management for COntracted DElivery) is an industry consortium launched by Nanzan University and six major Japanese IT companies including Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM, NEC, Nomura Research Institute, and NTT DATA in May, 2012.
2. A Technical Committee is being created at OASIS to continue the PROMCODE work in affiliation with the OSLC Member Section, details about joining this TC through the Call for Participants period will also be discussed in this webcast.

Speakers

Sean Kennedy
Sean Kennedy has 10 years experience in the software industry, most of it at IBM. He has worked as a developer, support professional, team lead, customer engagements leader, and community development leader. Whatever he's done, he's always been an (undercover, sometimes) agent for change through continueous improvement and focus on business value. Since 2011 he has been an active member of the OSLC community and has been helping expand the community, and the use of OSLC technology. Sean speaks frequently about OSLC, delivers hands-on training for OSLC-implementers, and works with many organizations to understand the (positive, hopefully!) impact of OSLC on their business. Between 2009 and 2012 Sean regularly delivered IBM's internal Agile and Lean kick-start course: the Disciplined Agile Development Workshop. He believes success comes by facilitating the success of clients.

Dr. Mikio Aoyama
Dr. Mikio Aoyama is a professor at the department of software engineering, Nanzan University, Japan. Before he joined the university, he has 15 years of experiences in the industry including managing large-scale software development. Currently, he is a chair of PROMCODE consortium, a joint research consortium with IBM, Fujitsu, NEC, NTT DATA, Hitachi and Nomura Research Institute founded on May 21, 2012.
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