Manweek 2007

I attended a few sessions of Manweek 2007 in San Jose week before last. Mostly was in for DSOM, where the Bottom Line team's (Jacques Sauve et al.) paper on risk consideration in IT change management got the best paper award (congratulations to them!).

Besides that I have to say that I was not overall very impressed with the quality of the workshop. I found some of the sessions at MACE fresher and more interesting, though the presentations tended to be more about work-in-progress.

The workshop was anyway very well organized, with social dinner at the Tech in San Jose, during which we felt - very close - a 5.6 earthquake that made the whole structure swing. That was quite cool, being at the Tech it felt like a demo of what it is like being on the San Andreas fault.