Harmony and everything connected to the harmony in the modern system architecture will be covered by the best experts through lectures, workshops, open panels and practical examples from real life. Richard Sheridan, the author of the world famous book Joy, Inc. about creating harmony within the team and organization, Phaedra Boinodiris, an IBM expert in the field of cognitive design and methods of influence on the organization though the concept of serious gaming, and Yonatan Raz-Friedman, co-founder of the fastest growing UK startup, a person who knows everything we want to know about innovation and many other domestic and foreign experts will be in Zadar with us!

Participants who register for the QED 2017 Conference by April 7, 2017 will have the chance to win a free registration fee for participation in the race Wings for Life World Run Croatia (in message section on the registration form, please note “Registration for Wings for Life World Run”).

You can register for QED 2017 via registration form. 

Looking forward to seeing you at the Conference!

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Through various lecture formats the Quality in Enterprise Development (QED) Conference regularly examines current aspects of quality in software development. How to tap the individual’s full potential for efficiency of the organization? How to harmonize new generations with the experience and knowledge we already possess? What is the link between harmony and modern system architectures? The answers to these and many other questions will be revealed to you by Richard Sheridan, the author of the world famous book Joy, Inc. about creating harmony within the team and organization. Phaedra Boinodiris from IBM will provide us with the latest knowledge in the field of cognitive design and methods of influence on the organization though the concept of serious gaming, and Yonatan Raz-Friedman, co-founder of the fastest growing UK startup, a person who knows everything we want to know about innovation and many other domestic and foreign experts.

Sports part of the QED includes, this year as well, participation in the race Wings for Life World Run Croatia, which will be held in Zadar on the first day of the Conference. Participants who register for the 11^th QED Conference by March 24, 2017 will have the chance to win a free registration fee for participation in the race if they note in message section on the registration form “Registration for Wings for Life World Run”.

Interested parties can register for the QED Conference today by filling out this form and take advantage of the early bird registration.

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Wings for Life World Run takes place in Zadar on the first day of the conference May 7, 2017.

Participants who sign up to participate at the QED 2017 conference until 24 March 2017 have the chance to win a free registration fee for the run (please put in comment section on the registration form “Registration for Wings for Life World Run”).

Colleagues from CROZ invite you to join their team “CROZ QED 2017” and to jointly achieve the best possible result! 

Global Race Wings for Life World Run begins at 13 p.m. local time on a few dozen locations around the world. More information are available here. Link for registration can be found here.

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For the last couple of years, we tried to apply numerous Japanese practices, we looked up to their efficiency and creativity, we analyzed kaizen, lean, and so on. It is often that we got stuck on one question: “To which extent is it possible to apply their concepts into our culture?” Even if we move away from the individuals’ customs, culture and way of working, an individual will continue to have its specificities, and all the weak and strong sides that come with it. Just as the double bass cannot play the same note as the flute, it is a real magic to harmonize them while remaining creative and innovative. Inspiration from the eleventh QED was found in Japanese success in running, to be more specific, in team relay race marathon running. Guided by the WA aka team harmony, they managed to achieve top results in a sport which is not specific to Japan. The same ethics dictates that goal is not glory of an individual, but a team success, which is applied to the business environment as well.

We believe that there are not so many differences between us and the Japanese when we are talking about the team harmony and utilization of the individual potential to achieve the team goal.

Harmony and everything connected to the harmony in the modern system architecture will be covered by the best experts through lectures, workshops, open panels and practical examples from real life next May in Zadar. See you there?

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What is a failure in the business environment, how to adapt to the new everyday challenges brought to us by new trends and technologies, why there is no success without failures – are only a couple of the questions that were answered to the participants by eminent domestic and international lectures.

The biggest delight of this year QED was keynote speaker, IBM Fellow, scientist and owner of more than 70 patents – John Cohn. Serious Play – an Engineer’s Perspective on Success, Failure and Play at Work is a lecture title on which Cohn talked about that while working you should play and make errors, as in the errors there are usually solutions that we wouldn’t discover in any other way. Mistakes and failures should be observed as learning points that lead to success.

You should never lose the playfulness as it encourages you to be better at what you do and makes you creative – said John Cohn.

Peter Eeles, Executive IT Architect in DevOps Global Tiger Team of IBM, held a lecture and workshop where he conveyed many conveniences of DevOps concept to the participants and gave them guidelines for realization of their DevOps visions. Excellent presentation was held by closing keynote speaker Andrea Tomasini from agile42 company. How to create a company which is strong and resistant to the challenges of today’s market? The answer is hidden in the agile approach, or to be more precise in adopting new skills and practices.

Tina Pogačić, Head of Programs in Project Portfolio Management of Zagrebačka banka, presented the transformation of the organizational culture from the traditional one to the agile one. The transition of the internal processes toward the agile method, was stimulated by the results of the project success analysis of previous projects. This statistic was a turning point for creation of an own team for conducting experiments. After successful pilot projects, today more than 100 bank employees, divided into ten teams, is included in the joint team work toward the agile methodology.

The topic of this year’s panel discussion which was moderated by Vedrana Miholić, the sales manager of CROZ, was the digital transformation of banking business. On the panel there were Dijana Hrastović, board member of Zagrebačka banka responsible for retail business and Draženko Kopljar, board member of Privredna banka Zagreb, responsible for the IT department. Considering the experience of both banks, the key for success is in the changes of the organizational culture and in tendency to experiment.

Their life stories, which are today considered to be more than successful, despite the numerous challenges and failures, were shared with participants by Vladimir Miholjević, the director of the bicycle race Tour of Croatia, Toni Milun, professor of mathematics, and Marin Trošelj, the assistant of the informatics department for University of Rijeka, co-founder of Bure znanja and project team leader for STEMI.

The “sport” section of the QED 2016 conference included participation in the race Wings For Life World Run, and mixed team that consisted of CROZ employees, CROZ supporters and QED participants managed to finish 246^th out of 2343 teams in the World As a part of the “fun” section of the conference there was a screening of a movie about Ivica and Janica Kostelić – the Gnothi Seauton – Upoznaj samog sebe. This is the currency of an old Greek philosopher Socrates by which Gips was directing the careers of this amazing Croatian Olympic duo – from the cold tents on the ski resorts to the winner’ podiums.

This years’ Quality in Enterprise Development conference will be held from May 7^th to May 9^th and its’ focus will be harmony inside of the organization, respectively how to harmonize the power of the individuals.

We had great expectations from this 10^th conference and it is almost unbelievable that the speakers managed to exceed them. Led by sensational John Cohn, who firstly “bought” us with his genuine approach and then taught us how to enjoy in our work, but also in our life. But also, all other speakers, on their own special and unique way, they gave the contribution to the conference theme and I believe that they encouraged us to set up higher goals and to strive for the same. It will be a challenge to repeat this amazing conference, but we believe that the new theme for the next year will bring a completely new dimension – commented Vedrana Miholić.

Photo gallery from the 10^th QED conference can be viewed on the official Facebook page.

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