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Presentation: "Sustainable Development and Enterprise Value"

Time: Thursday 15:00 - 16:00

Location: City

Abstract: Recent troubling trends have called into question the long-term strategic value of software development. These include viewing enterprise IT as a commodity, spending an increasing portion of the IT budget on maintenance, and the struggle to quantify the value of new development. This presentation will discuss these trends and how a perspective based on sustainability can serve as a foundation for realizing the enterprise value of software development.

Clay Williams, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Clay Williams Clay Williams is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he manages the Governance Science Research Group. He is currently the principle investigator of a large multi-lab program focusing on developing highly usable and scalable techniques for aligning software project portfolios with enterprise goals, managing risk and value in these portfolios, and understanding how organizational dynamics in software development teams affect strategic alignment and value creation for the enterprise. Clay holds a PhD in computer science from Texas A&M University.