It is now possible to register for the final event of the year!

Join us in summarizing the past two years of CM Forum! Celebrate the release of CM Forum’s second white paper and take part in the workshop and discussion on this event’s topic:
What’s next for Configuration Management?

We will take part of two case stories – presented by organisations that currently are on a journey, preparing their CM capability for the future: Saab and Tetrapak.

The last workshop of the year will discuss the CM implications of Circular Economy. This concept captures the growing trend of re-using and recycling resources and the shift from selling a product to selling the service the product provides. The premise of the workshop will be that many of the methods and tools required to benefit from the business models in a circular economy already are accessible today within the Systems Engineering and Logistics Engineering domains. Our workshop will discuss what this shift means for CM.

Take a look at the program and register.

Hope to see you there!

Next forum event takes place at Ringhals on Oct 20th. Hope to see you there!

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/Tobias

We continue this fall with an event at Bombardier on sept 15th,

When responsibility and authority for the configuration management role is ambiguous or unclear, the CM practice is “weakened” in the sense that it becomes reactive, inconsistent across projects, ad-hoc and sometimes reduced to administration.

• How do you position CM responsibilities in the organisation to establish clear mandates?
• How do you establish an active ownership of CM that allows for flexibility and participatory decision-making?
• How do you define the role of the configuration manager compared with the individual responsibility to apply CM practices that lie on each co-worker?

To kick of our discussions, Bombardier will introduce us to their organisation and products and their approach to CM.

Take a look at the full program and register.

see you there …

Hope you all have had a good first quarter! We are now happy to announce the hosts and dates for CM Forum events 2016. You will be informed when it is possible to register (registration will be done at www.cmforum.se as before).

2016-05-03 – NORDEA

2016-09-15 – BOMBARDIER

2016-10-20 (preliminary) – VATTENFALL

2016-12-08 (preliminary) – SYNTELL

Make sure to mark your calendars. Hope to see you there!

Thank you all 36 participants for a great day at Ericsson!

The unprocessed workshop output has been uploaded to the Resource section together with the two Ericsson presentations.

Check out the program and registrate for CM Forum event no 4, taking place at Ericsson in Kista on Dec 2nd.

This time we will focus on CM challenges in a networked society. What new benefits and challenges related to CM come with advanced IT environments and new models for co-operation such as open source? To give context to our discussion and provide us with very real and tangible examples in relation to this workshop theme, Ericsson will introduce us to their organisation and approach to CM.

These are the important dates to allocate in your calender for remaining part of 2015.

CM FORUM meeting no4

The 4th CM Forum takes place at Ericsson, Kista on 2015-12-02 (note the change of date). Working title for the workshop: CM challanges in a Networked Society. Agenda and webform for registration will be available on www.cmforum.se within a few weeks.

Content development meetings

Two work meetings are scheduled for the purpose of developing and refining the documented results from workshop 1-3 2015. We hope that many of you are interested in taking part of this work. If you are interested to join, contact us. The idea is to work out of the Syntell office, but there will be a possibility to join over Lync. Meeting times are:

• Content development meeting 1 – 2015-11-11, 12:00-16:30, Syntell, Sandhamnsgatan 63 or Lync
• Content development meeting 2 – 2015-11-26, 09:00-12:00, Syntell, Sandhamnsgatan 63 or Lync

 Results from CM Forum event no3, 2015-09-22 at Volvo CE are now available in the resouces section. Thanks to all 31 active, knowledgable and creative participants! Hope to see you again next time.

Event no3 scheduled for sept 22 at Volvo CE is now fully booked. If you missed the opportunity, event no4 is coming up in November. Registration will be possible shortly.