Perhaps a day will come between 2007-2010 when the above organizations and others work as one to organize and begin a series of inherent quality global summits, albeit G7, G8 or G# (gee sharp) in relation to representation associated with the flags below and many more.

While at this juncture such an event may be only a dream, looking ahead to such a possibility of a summit intended to address the next generation and characteristics of inherent quality (relative to the software and IT industry and profession) one might dream further of participation potentially including:

• Vendor community representation (e.g. from Microsoft Bill Gates, from IBM/Rational Grady Booch)

• Top professional association representation from each attending country (e.g. perhaps the President from CIPS, BCS and so on… and/or highly regarded persons as well representing each society and country e.g. perhaps CIPS – Stephen Ibaraki would participate, and/or moderate and article the sessions)

• User community representation (e.g. a person of wealth and holdings who depends highly on software and IT quality and professionals, e.g. Donald Trump, or perhaps a Walton offspring of the founder of Wal-Mart, or perhaps a non-North American with global holdings… or perhaps someone who provides the user community with valuable hardware, web services or literature, e.g. billionaires founders like Michael Dell or Sergey Brin / Larry Page (Google), or the long-established Jeff Bezos of Amazon… or perhaps an active practitioner who has already made it as a hall of fame inductee or nominee)

• Guru representation... For example, perhaps a quality guru quoted within the Inherent Quality manuscript that may still actively be practicing… such as perhaps a) Watts Humphrey who in the spring of 2005 during a formal ceremony at the White House, was awarded by the President of the United States, the prestigious 2003 National Medal of Technology for his contributions to the software engineering community… The National Medal of Technology is the highest honor awarded by the United States to America's leading innovators… for very interesting details about Watts Humphrey see his bio; or perhaps b) this computer hall of fame inductee - Ed Yourdon, who was one of the leading proponents suggesting proactive risk management due diligence associated with potential Y2K bugs and/or who produced a steady stream of books etc. (e.g. lead developer of the structured systems analysis and design methodology and co-developer of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented analysis/design)… in fact who authored over 550 technical articles and authored or coauthored 26 computer books since 1967… in fact who in a 1997 book renounced his own 1970’s inventions of modern software engineering including many of the formalisms he created two decades ago, saying they were irrelevant in today’s internet-speed world)

• Developer community representation (e.g. perhaps two very talented active software developers… such as whereby perhaps identified summit participants could recommend two very active top-level talented software developers by running a related identification/recognition program within their associations or realm of contacts albeit potentially involving assistance from organizations such as Culminis… perhaps one developer must be less than 30 (?) years of age to represent the future of the profession’s developer community… perhaps one developer should be in a prominent university doing a masters or PhD… in any event, whether the smarts/talents are inherently part of the individual, or have been derived from study or experience, perhaps the identified summit participants could: a) review a short-list of 2 winners brought forth by each identified summit participant… and then b) from interviews/process similar to awarding Rhodes scholarships, select the final two to join the summit team)

InherentQuality.Com dreams of evolving quality (even if only helping to start the ball rolling to help evolve quality)... From quality assurance-control (aka controls and assurances)... To quality improvement-management (aka managed improvement)... And then beyond that which is perhaps already achievable to degrees using means of present day... whereby from collective imaginations software and information technology professionals more so as one global community work towards increasingly having greater levels of and means of quality intrinsic-pervasive ... aka inherent

 This page was last updated June 7, 2007