S3M - Software Maintenance Maturity Model

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Honda Recall - transmission software

Just a note on a recall I just got in the mail today.

Honda is recalling my Honda CRV to update the automatic transmission software to prevent transmission damage.

Soon there will be as much software maintenance to cars then mechanic maintenance


S3M now in Korea

On September 22nd, 2011 I was invited to give a talk to the CIO conference in SEOUL, South Korea. You can see the slides of this presentation.

Recently Bankware Global has obtained the gold partner status and has obtained from ÉTS University in Montréal Canada the exclusive rights to offer consulting services to help Korean companies use the software maintenance maturity model (S3M). Bankware Global intends to offer services to the banking industry and join with IBM Korea to service the other market segments.

A first mandate will be conducted with Woori FIS one of the IT support organization of a large Korean Bank. I plan to support Bankware Global in their lead assessor training while they will apply the S3M principles to assess the maturity of Woori Bank FIS.

I will visit Korea again in November and January to help with the knowledge transfer for the introduction of our book concepts: Software Maintenance Management: Evaluation and Continuous Improvement in Korea.