Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 19:48:36 -0500 From: John Pustaver Subject: Date Correction: MARK YOUR CALENDAR: Software Quality Group Meeting, Wednesday, Mar 10, 2004: Are you Hiring Yesterday's Testers? Hi Everyone! At this month's meeting, Johanna Rothman will talk about the kinds of testing skills that are needed in today's development environment. More info below. Johanna will be giving a copy of "Amplifying Your Effectiveness: Collected Essays" and a copy of "Roundtable on Technical Leadership: A SHAPE Forum DIalogue" to lucky attendees. Due to enhanced security, a picture ID is required for attendance. Best wishes, John Pustaver Director, Software Quality Group of New England Region I Deputy Councilor, ASQ Software Division P.S. If your company has SQA positions to fill for permanent or contract employment, please have HR send me a .htm file for each job with all pertinent info so that it can be posted. There are many people looking. Send to pustaver@ieee.org. The Jobs website is at http://www.swquality.com/users/pustaver/jobs/. Software Quality Group Meeting Meetings of the Software Quality Group are held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at the facilities of Sun Microsystems, Burlington (Driving directions below). MEETING DAY & DATE: Wednesday, Mar. 10, 2004 TIME: 6:00 PM Networking, 6:30 PM Meeting HEADLINE: Are you Hiring Yesterday's Testers? SPEAKER: Johanna Rothman MORE INFO: John Pustaver, 978-443-4254, pustaver@ieee.org LOCATION: Sun Microsystems, Burlington (Driving directions below) DESCRIPTION: Today's test teams must provide information about a product throughout its lifecycle. Have you adapted to these needs? Or are you still playing by yesterday's rules? Testing a complex system is just as difficult as creating a complex system. Just creating unit tests that test each path or object individually is not sufficient testing for a complex system. And just creating expert user based tests is insufficient. The more complex the system, the more varied the required tester skills. There's a difference between first-class and second-class testers, and it's not hard to tell the difference once you know what to look for. In this presentation, Johanna will discuss how to recognize second-class testers, how to articulate the value of your test group, how to define what first-class testers know and what a first-class group can do, how to recognize first-class testers when you hire, and where to consider training for testers with fewer skills. Johanna Rothman speaks, writes, and consults on managing high technology product development, helping managers, teams, and organizations become more effective. Johanna uses pragmatic techniques for managing people, projects, and risk, to create successful teams and projects. A frequent speaker and author on managing high technology product development, Johanna has written over 100 articles and papers and is now a columnist for Software Development, Computerworld.com,and StickyMinds.com. Johanna is the author of Hiring Technical People, available from Dorset House sometime this year. 2003-2004 Software Quality Group Calendar Sep 10, 2003: Eric Patel, RapidSQA, Measuring Testing's Effectiveness: How to Ensure You're Getting Your Money's Worth Oct. 15, 2003 (3rd Wed): James McKim, ISRG, Inc., Techniques for Gathering Requirements Nov. 12, 2003: John DeMassi, Tailoring an Agile Methodology to Better Support Testing Dec. 10, 2003: Marc Rene, GTECH, Risk Management for Testers Jan 14, 2004: Joe Zec, Workshop on estimation, providing practical tools and techniques to aid in the software estimation process Feb. 11, 2004: Robin Goldsmith, Avoid Creep-Discover the REAL Requirements Mar. 10, 2004: Anna Allison Memorial Presentation, Johanna Rothman, Are you Hiring Yesterday's Testers?" Apr 14, 2004: Richard DesJardins, CMM Level 1 to Full Level 3 Implementation in 1 year: a Case Study May 5, 2004: (1st Wed): Ross Collard, Collard & Co, Topic TBD June 9, 2004: Compuware, Automating the Test Process; Successes and Failures July 14, 2004: Annual Hot Topics Night August 2004: NO MEETING The Software Quality Group holds monthly meetings. Topics covered at these meetings have included software testing, inspections, ISO 9000, metrics configuration management, and demonstrations of vendor QA tools. There is no charge. The Software Quality Group meets monthly at 6:15pm on the second Wednesday of the month at the facilities of Sun Microsystems, Burlington, MA. Driving directions: From 128/95 Take the Rt. 3 exit heading north (not the Middlesex Turnpike exit if you're coming form the south). From Rt. 3N take the first exit (which is Rt. 62 - Bedford Ave). Turn east toward Burlington. Approximately 0.3 mile after the interchange, turn right onto Network Drive, which leads to the campus on your right. Take the second drive off of Network Drive into the Sun parking lot. Park in the visitor lot and enter the lobby opposite the Sun clock tower. Information about future meetings will be available on the Software Quality Page at http://www.swquality.com/users/pustaver. To be on the email distribution list, send a note to pustaver@ieee.org. The Software Quality Group is cosponsored by Sun Microsystems and the ASQ Software Division and all are welcome. Directors of the Software Quality Group are John Pustaver, Region I Deputy Councilor, American Society for Quality Software Division, Eric Patel, Regional Councilor, ASQ-SD, Liz Hryniewich, Allan Foley, and Jack Morrison of Sun Microsystems. 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