Essence Quotes

essence Quotes

"At Munich Re, one of the world's leading reinsurers, I'm the owner of the way of working in application development. The application development of Munich Re is globally distributed, and its line organization is divided up along the development disciplines (aka "stove pipe organization": different departments for project management, requirements engineering, testing, development, technical architecture and so forth). Additionally we work heavily with different outsourcing partners for the disciplines. Hence, in almost every project Munich Re has many participants from different sources who have to agree on a common way of working. In the past we tried different approaches to establish a common view on our application development process.

When Essenceā„¢ was brought into the discussion, it was a marvelous step forward. By using ESSENCE, the discussion was focused on the most important things first. We could agree on our common view of Munich Re's application development process, we could agree on process variants for different circumstances, we could define different practices with different levels of detail and different levels of bindingness, and many things more. In our experience, Essenceis a very helpful tool to provide guidance to the projects. The reason is, for defining a way of working, this standard has the right balance between setting an authoritative and guiding common ground, and at the same time allowing a required flexibility to cope with the wide variety of situations in application development. And Essence is very flexible regarding the level of obligation you want to set for the projects.

Plus, over the time we learned that nothing in this standard is company-specific, the Essence elements are universal to all application development endeavors."

Burkhard Perkens-Golomb
IT Architect, Munich Re

"In my role in Fujitsu I have ownership of our application process. In addition I manage and work with our Solution Owner and CTO groups who have to define and create solutions across the whole aspect of system design bringing together multiple processes and methods in order to create solutions that will work and meet our customers' needs while being costed correctly. In the ever global business we also now need to stitch together different processes and methods from Fujitsu's global organization and vast ecosystem of partners.

In this context I believe that having SEMAT is vital to being able to deliver great solutions and ensure that we have a common language for defining and integrating different groups needing to work together to a common goal. Equally it's a great way for communicating to end customers and across governance and assurance reviews the state of projects and allowing gaps to be quickly identified and closed in the teams. I strongly believe that this now needs to be brought into industry and embedded as a gold standard and this is the area I want to help drive by joining the SEMAT executive group."

Stephen Nadin
Fujitsu UK

"In this era of ever increasing complexity, it is critical for any consulting company to curtail costs and unnecessary complexity by simplifying the execution & delivery of software development and business transformation projects for its clients. To do so, the consulting company must distill the core of all related different delivery methodologies to an essential unified set. As that is the foundation of the Essence standard promulgated by the SEMAT group and standardized by the OMG, TCS is very interested in leading the path to getting this done.

In order to facilitate the above mentioned task, TCS has engaged with all of its core industry partners like SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and others and also the clients of TCS and is working with the core methodology teams of those companies to help foster the collaborative adoption of the Essence standard and turn this de-jure standard into a de facto standard (i.e a standard also because everyone is using it and not just because, as a very necessary step in that direction, it has been declared a standard by a standards body)."

Sumeet Malhotra
TCS