The workshop on Balanced IT Scorecard - BITS, for the first time in Bulgaria, presented the strategic and operational management methodology developed at the European Software Institute, Spain.

BITS is an effective communication mechanism for formulating, transmitting and agreeing on the strategy of an organisation, facilitating the alignment of improvement initiatives with the overall strategic business plan and the elaboration of a comprehensive and balanced strategic measurement system.

The first 38 Bulgarian and 1 Romanian software engineering experts certified in “Introduction to CMMI” formed the CMMI Club, at Rakursi Art Gallery. The CMMI club purpose is to support the contact among experts in industry standards. It is a CMMI-certified-community informal meeting-point. Club members represent executive and operational level management from Bulgarian and Romanian SW companies. CMMI Club members initiate and implement industry standards in their organizations aiming to further raise organisational excellence in the art of software.

European Software Institute Center Bulgaria participated in BINARY'2004 - Romanian Electronic and Software Fair. The event took place in Bucharest, September 22-24, 2004 at the Conference Center ROMEXPO (Pavilion 2). The main objective was to present ESI Center activities as a Regional Software Excellence Center of the European Software Institute (Spain).
 

We were presented with “the key” which helped the Basque Country transfer from the past into the future of Information Technologies Development. Ms. Elena Gutierrez, the Advisor to the Councellor on Industry, Commerce and Tourism in the Autonomous Basque Government and Coordinator of the Basque programme for Information Society Development, and Mr. Inaki Suarez, Director of Information Society Area visited Sofia and presented “EUSKADI in the Information Society” – the Programme for Information Society development in the Basque Country.