Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Dublin We are delighted to announce that ITB has recently signed an Education Partnership agreement with the IAP. This confers substantial benefits for its students and staff. For example, suitably qualified students and new graduates are elected as IAP members without charge for their first year. As with all IAP partnerships, […]

Council member John Ellis, FIAP wrestles with his email and asks for your suggestions. Backing up my PC recently, I ran out of space on the backup device. Usually I would have purchased a bigger hard drive and offloaded the data to the new box. Having some time on my hands, though, I thought I […]

4th annual Flexible and Mobile Working in the Public Sector: ‘Improving productivity and maximising efficiency’ is at the Cavendish Conference Centre, London W1 on 6 July. See www.kablenet.com for details. Advance warning: the IAP’s AGM for 2006 will be on Saturday, 7 October. Full details will appear in September’s VSJ. [Got an activity or event […]

As regular readers know, Council member Paul Lynham traditionally writes a report on the annual symposium to which we devote the whole of ‘IAP News’. Here’s this year’s. The 2006 Symposium was held at Trinity House, Tower Hill in London. Chairman and IAP Vice President David Morgan welcomed everyone and introduced Mike Ryan, the Director […]

Two years ago, Brian Swan of Exoftware made a very well received presentation to the IAP Symposium on the principles of Agile software development. Here, his colleague Sean Hanley develops these ideas for a wider audience. The last 40 years of the 20th century saw lean manufacturing and concepts such as ‘Just-in-Time’ revolutionise the manufacturing […]

We welcome two new Fellows Richard C. Acland Richard obtained his grounding in business systems while working as a computer operator in the mid-eighties. Experience on a Honeywell DPS7 Mainframe and on-the-job training enabled him to move up into a job as a developer and in 1988 he helped to found the software house Chase […]

Darren Brook, MIAP is an experienced software developer. He has experience in systems analysis, database design and software development. Latest technical skills include .Net, VB, SQL Server, Crystal Reports, ADO, HTML, XML and COM. He is currently available for work and can e-mailed at darrenbrook@btconnect.com [Want your entry printed here? Email eo@iap.org.uk with the details.]

The 3rd annual Government UK IT Summit brings together senior public sector decision-makers to discuss IT and communication procurement issues related to e-government. It’s at Victoria Park Plaza, London SW1 on 8 and 9 May. Contact Tim Graham on 0207 903 6027 or email tim@euro-techforum.com for details. Internet World is at Earls Court 2, London […]

Shah Md. Safiul Hoque, MIAP is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and IT at Bangladesh University of Business & Technology. Here he tells us something of the growth in the Bangladesh software industry and the initiatives being developed to sustain it. Introduction: The globalization of the software industry is seen as a […]

We welcome two new Fellows Danny Cheung Chiu-Leung Not really a new member of the IAP, Danny Cheung joined us first as a Fellow in 1984.  But his membership lapsed and he has only recently resurfaced.  Resident in Calgary since 2000 as President of OriSon Biotechnology Inc, before that Danny was President of GMR High […]