Tuesday, January 28, 2020

What is CMG - my 2¢

What is CMG?
Membership based professional association, covering the following professions/disciplines for multiplatform (MF, CLoud, Network, DBs, Mobil) IT business :
- Capacity Management service including System Performance Engineering, Capacity Planning and Cloud rightsizing/optimization
- NFR engineering and software/hardware testing.
- Availability Management including high and continuous availability systems engineering.
- IT systems Observability and Monitoring
- Information Security Management system including intruder detection.
- Site Reliability Engineering 
- AI and Big data  in relation to above-mentioned  professions/discipline

The main organization's goal is to share knowledge  by organizing seminars, meetups, virtual and real conferences, webinars, blogging, newsletters, training, and websites with access to an extensive and valuable knowledge base. 

What do I want it to be? 
Basically the same but focusing on our specific niche  (above-mentioned  professions/discipline) and to be vendor agnostics which should help us to compete. Also the board and officers should be a real expert in above-mentioned  professions/discipline

What topics should we talk about?
Above-mentioned  professions/discipline  

Where do I see value in CMG?
Sharing among members the vendor agnostic user experience and expertice.

What are tangible benefits CMG should offer?
Proved and trusted Subject Matter Expertise and effective high quality knowledge transfer (sharing) among members and members and officers/knowledge base. Plus continues industry trends updates by partnership with key vendors in the area of our expertise. Good and organized and cheap events.

Where are our growth opportunities?
We should be respectful and trustworthy experts in the subject area as well as good event organizers, so members would interact with us and through us often and new members would consider joining as we should be a good source of professional development and networking.