Tomasz Byzia

President, founder of StrictWise

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He graduated from Electronics Department of the University of Technology in Warsaw and post-graduate studies within Management and Marketing in High School of Management and Marketing in Warsaw. He is an assistant and lecturer in Information Technologies Department of the University of Technology in Warsaw. He has completed a number of courses in issues connected with managing projects, quality, TQM and CMM. He is the author of numerous publications, lectures and reports concerning project management, quality management, production process enhancement, and IT investments profitability pricing. He permanently co-operates with the weekly ComputerWorld and the CIO magazine. He is a member of the Project Management Institute and International Project Management Association. He is the initiator and member of the programme board of the National Conference of IT Systems Quality. He is a jury member of the IT Leader award adudicated by the Computer World magazine. The creator of the unique method of organisational processes diagnostics.

From 1998 he worked for Infovide S.A. as a consultant, project manager, auditor and trainer. From 2000 he was the head of the consulting programme ValueIT and managed projects within IT investment profitability analysis. In 2002 he managed the training and consulting company Infovide Akademia Sp. z o.o. specialising in project and programme management in modern organisations. In the years 2003 – 2005 he was a research and development director in the company Premium Technology, where he was in charge of introducing solutions supporting large companies in project portfolio management onto the Polish market.

He has a large experience in consultancy and has well-developed interpersonal skills. He has been a trainer of issues connected with project and quality management and software engineering for 15 years, which accounts to over 2500 training hours. He has authored courses in project and quality management.

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Project and project portfolio management
Project methodologies (PMBOK, PRINCE2)
Methods of complex IT quality management
Quantity methods for monitoring IT processes
Balance IT scorecard
CBA analysis of IT projects

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He has experience in ...

Implementing long-term project programmes
Organising offices of portfolio IT management
Organising IT supervision
Implementing training programmes
Leading workshops for high managerial staff
Contacts with the media

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II National Conference of IT Systems Quality, Warsaw

Lecture: Management by Quality

 

XX Autumn School of the Polish IT Association (PTI), Mrągowo

Lecture: Ethics Engineering

 

Conference 'Human Capital – a challenge for the manager', IT Leader 2004 – Warsaw

A lecture and panel discussion moderation

 

Conference ‘Return on Investment in IT’ IT Leader 2003 – Warsaw

A lecture and panel discussion moderation

 

XII Conference of Personnel – Warsaw

Lecture: The Most Important Thing Is to Know What Is the Most Important, or Principles in the Beginning of a Century’

 

Conference of the Scientific Society of Enterprise and Innovation in the Electronics and Information Technologies Department of the University of Technology in Warsaw – ‘Enterprise – the Way to Your Success’, Warsaw

Lecture: Staff Competence in a Modern Company

 

Conference ECU Marketing – II Congress of Customer Care, Krakow

Lecture: TQM as a Tool to Enhance Customer Satisfaction

 

Conference NetVision II – Project Management, Gdansk

Lecture: Extreme Project Management in the Age of the New Economy

 

Conference Software Conferences – IT Cost Reduction Warsaw - Miedzeszyn

Lecture: Complex Approach to IT Investments

 

Conference of the Centre for IT Promotion - IT Strategies / e-Administration, Jachranka

A lecture and discussion: IT Costs in a Company, or How Much Teleinformation Costs

 

Conference of the Scientific Society of Enterprise and Innovation in the Electronics and Information Technologies Department of the University of Technology in Warsaw – The Role of an Engineer in Contemporary Economy, Warsaw

Lecture: The Virtual Engineer

 

XIII Mountain School of the Polish IT Association (PTI), Szczyrk

Lecture: TCO or Total Cost of IT Ownership Management

 

Conference of the Scientific Society of Information Technology of the Academy of Economy in Krakow – Quality of IT systems, Krakow

Lecture: Tools Supporting IT Project Quality Management

 

Conference of the Institute for Enterprise Support – Tomorrow’s Competition Advantage, Wrocław

Lecture: Innovation as a Chance of Achieving and Keeping a Market Leader Position

 

I Forum of the New Economy, Warsaw

Lecture: What Is the Added Value of IT Ownership in a Company?

 

III Conference of the Project Management Poland Association, Jelenia Góra

Lecture: Extreme Quality Management

 

Conference of the Institute for International Research – Project Management, Warsaw

Lecture: Quality Management in IT Projects

 

XII Mountain School of the Polish IT Association (PTI), Szczyrk

Lecture: …your next lawsuit is with your customs officer …

 

Conference of the Institute for International Research – Internal Audit, Warsaw

Lecture: Internal Audit as a Tool for IT Department Development Management

 

II Conference of the Project Management Poland Association, Gdansk

Lecture: Prospects for Project Management in the Light of New IT Challenges

Lecture: Quick Process Diagnostics as an Example of a Quality Enhancement Methodology in IT Project Management

Workshop: Quality Management in Projects

 

I Conference of the Project Management Poland Association, Gdansk

Lecture: Quality Management in Projects – A Practician’s Confessions

 

I National Conference of Software Engineering

Lecture: The Results of Consulting Operations Carried Out in the Company Simple S.A. during a Session of the Project INSPIRE

 

XI Mountain School of the Polish IT Association (PTI), Szczyrk

Lecture: Consulting Operations in the Company Simple S.A. during a Session of the Project INSPIRE

Lecture: An IT Engineer at the Doctor’s ...

Tutorial: Quality Management in an IT Project

 

XIV Autumn School of the Polish IT Association (PTI), Mrągowo

Lecture: Tools for Ensuring and Controling Software Quality

 

X Mountain School of the Polish IT Association (PTI), Szczyrk

Lecture: Software Quality Management

Lecture: SPICE – Standards for Assessment and Enhancement of Software Production Processes

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the cycle of 16 articles in the ComputerWorld magazine, 2003/2004

The Sellers of Silver Bullets

          Part 1: 1:1 at Halftime
          Part 2: The Pharao’s Curse

          Part 3: 4 Alternative Street

          Part 4: Matrix

          Part 5: The Wages of Fear

          Part 6: 101 Dalmatians

          Part 7: Trading Places

          Part 8: The Seven Samurai

          Part 9: Kelly’s Heroes

          Part 10: E=mc2

          Part 11: Mission Impossible

          Part 12: Monsters Inc.

          Part 13: Altered States

          Part 14: Wild at Heart

          Part 15: Boys Don’t Cry

          Part 16: A Christmas Carol

the cycle of 6 articls in the Computer World magazine, 2002/2003

The War of Lent and Carnival (Wojna postu z karnawałem)

Manager, 10/2002

Total Quality and the Age of Uncertainty

PC Kurier 3.09.2001

Methodically to TCO – IT Usage Cost Management

Puls Biznesu, 27.06.2001

The Costs of IT Should Be Treated as a Whole

The Strategies for Informatisation, Infovide

To Catch the Train: Quality - Satisfaction

ComputerWorld special edition – 10th anniversary

About Quality at the End of the Century

ComputerWorld special edition – 10th anniversary

IT Engineer Morality

Infoman, no. 1/2000

Quality Management Management

ComputerWorld, no. 30/1999

An IT Engineer at the Doctor’s ...

the cycle of 8 articles in the ComputerWorld magazine, no. 19 – 26/1999

Software Quality Management

ComputerWorld, no 12/1998

Software Elegance

ComputerWorld, no 8/1998

Quality and Quite

Informatyka, no 9/98

Quality Management

the cycle of 10 articles in the ComputerWorld magazine, no. 16-26/1998

IT Projects Management

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After work he ...

Does Kendo – the Old Japanese Bamboo Sword Fencing  gallery

Goes skiing on the snow, preferably in the mountains gallery

Travels the world gallery

Listens to the music of the following groups:

Metallica
Green Day
Deep Purple
Led Zeppelin
ZZ Top
Gary Moore
Nightwish

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