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Posted by  "Colm Toolan \(subs\)" <subscriptions at toolan.de>

Jim wrote >> Why not have a "professional conference" that's separate from
the existing conference?

To paraphrase an old anti-war slogan: Suppose we had a professional
conference and no one turned up?

About a year ago, I asked on this list for examples of SD in use -
commercially or otherwise - with documented returns on effort and/or
investment. Unfortunately the responses citing documented examples were
relatively few.

While I agree with Kim that this may simply be due to business people (and
their advisors) not wishing to "open their kimonos" to talk about the
successes they've achieved with SD - with the resultant transparency into
the detail of how they run their business - I can't help thinking that the
SD community just doesn't have enough good - i.e. properly documented, with
RoI etc - examples of SD in use in business to fill (even) a one-day
professional conference.


Colm Toolan, Business Architect
Posted by  "Colm Toolan \(subs\)" <subscriptions at toolan.de>
posting date  Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:12:18 +0100