I've been nominated as a director candidate for the CMG.
My candidate statement is posted below because my views related to CMG
mirror my views for application performance in organizations and the
industry as a whole and I believe that is (or, at least, I hope it is)
interesting to anyone involved or concerned with challenges related to
application performance now and in the future.
If you are a CMG member, I encourage you to review all of the candidate statements and to vote your conscience here.
Remember, if you don't vote, you have no right to complain. ;)
Statement of Willingness to Serve:
I am willing and would consider it an honor to serve as a director for CMG if elected.
Professional Work Experience:
In my nearly 20 years of experience working in software and
technology, I have performed the duties associated with virtually all of
the commonly thought of roles; from analyst to project management,
configuration management to IT support, and developer to CIO. These many
experiences coalesced shortly after Y2K into a career focused on
helping organizations improve software system performance to enhance
user experience and enable smooth growth while avoiding speed,
stability, and scalability catastrophes in a fiscally responsible
manner.
Today, I am the President and Chief Technologist of PerfTestPlus,
Inc. PerfTestPlus is a small company that I founded in 2005 focused on
assisting organizations to implement or enhance an entire life-cycle
approach to managing the performance of their systems cost efficiently
through training, mentoring, and consulting at the project, management,
and executive levels.
Prior to founding PerfTestPlus, I was employed in a variety IT
specialist roles by several custom software development companies, a
government contracting agency, and a hardware start-up, all after
serving as a Captain in the U.S. Army. I hold a M.S. in Information
Technology and a B.S. in Civil Engineering.
Other Professional Experience:
Over the past 10 years, I have become recognized among the world's
most prominent thought-leaders in the area of software system
performance testing and increasingly in how businesses can bring high
quality technology products to market while maximizing the overall
business value of those products. Put simply, since starting my career
in technology, I've been focused on figuring out how businesses can
deliver user-satisfying technology solutions in a manner that is
maintainable, low risk, and profitable.
One of the ways I've tried to accomplish this is by sharing what I've
learned with others through writing and speaking. I have composed over
100 publications including 4 books; Web Load Testing for Dummies,
Compuware 2011 (Author), Performance Testing Guidance for Web
Applications, Microsoft Press, 2007 (Co-Author), Beautiful Testing,
O'Reilly, 2010 (Contributing Author) and How to Reduce the Cost of
Testing, Auerbach Publications, 2011 (Contributing Author). I've also
delivered seemingly countless talks to groups and corporations, small
and large, in person and via web, including keynote addresses for major
conferences on 4 continents.
Another way I've worked toward this goal is by building and
supporting communities that focus on collaborative learning and
ultimately consolidation and promotion of good ideas and practices
across the industry. Aside from participating in online and local
communities, I co-founded the Workshop on Performance and Reliability
and served for 4 years as Vice President and Executive Director for the
Association for Software Testing, a non-profit organization dedicated to
advancing the understanding and practice of software testing.
Candidate statement:
My major contributions to the computer measurement and management
field all center around improving communication and collaboration across
teams and specializations throughout the technology lifecycle,
particularly as it relates to the performance, scalability, and
reliability of technology solutions. It is through the extension and
enhancement of this idea, combined with my experience as a business
owner, non-profit executive director, conference coordinator, and
community builder/manager that I seek to serve the CMG membership.
Historically speaking, computer measurement and management has been
primarily the responsibility of IT and Support Operations groups. In
today's world of Agile, the Cloud and virtualized environments, having
IT and Support Operations start measurement and management activities as
products enter final preparations for production release is too late.
To increase the likelihood of success, businesses need be doing
appropriate measurement and management activities, unbroken, throughout
the lifecycle. Taking the lead in helping businesses make this
organizational shift is where I see CMG's largest opportunity to add
value to the industry over the next several years. I believe CMG can
accomplish this by providing thought leadership and expanding its
influence to new audiences.
CMG has a history of supporting and promoting leading thoughts and
thinkers, and this should certainly continue. I believe CMG would
benefit from becoming recognized as a thought leading organization in
its own right. Making this transition need not be difficult. All it
takes is for CMG, as an organization, to identify current challenges,
provide education about the value of resolving those challenges, and
share some principles and practices that can be employed to help resolve
them. Helping organizations to become thought leaders in their own
right is something I have successfully accomplished before, and I would
be proud to bring those lessons and experiences to help CMG do the same.
In terms of expand its influence to new audiences, I believe I am
uniquely suited to help CMG do exactly that. With me comes virtually
unrestricted access to the most natural expansion point for CMG,
architects, developers, testers, vendors, and communities focused on the
delivery of highly performant, scalable and reliable technology
solutions. Today these individuals and groups cluster in underutilized
online communities, small corners of larger conferences, and unconnected
local groups. In other words, CMG has the opportunity to merge these
groups with its already strong and active membership base, creating a
well respected and organized home for mutual growth and collaboration. I
believe that CMG has all of the tools it needs to make this happen, and
in just a few short years, return to enjoying the benefits that come
with serving a larger membership, without sacrificing any of the
personality and services that have kept CMG strong for all of these
years.
A vote for me is, in effect, a vote to leverage the existing
strengths, collective knowledge, and brand recognition of CMG to expand
CMG's reach to all of the groups and individuals that participate, or
should be participating in, computer measurement and management
activities throughout the technology lifecycle while enhancing it's
reputation of identifying and supporting thought leaders to additionally
become a thought leader in it's own right.
--
Scott Barber
Chief Technologist, PerfTestPlus, Inc.
About.me
Co-Author, Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications
Author, Web Load Testing for Dummies
Contributing Author, Beautiful Testing, and How To Reduce the Cost of Testing
"If you can see it in your mind...
you will find it in your life."
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