Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 17:07:26 -0500 (EST) From: John Pustaver Subject: Software Quality Group Meeting, Wed Mar. 11, Some Effective Metrics for Monitoring Your Quality Process Software Quality Group Meeting Meetings of the Software Quality Group are held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at the facilities of Waterfield Technology Group, 430 Bedford Street, Lexington, Massachusetts (see below for directions). MEETING DAY & DATE: Wednesday, Mar. 11, 1998 TIME: 6:15 PM Topic: Some Effective Metrics for Monitoring Your Quality Process SPEAKER: John Pustaver, Consultant & ASQ Software Division, Region I Councilor MORE INFO: JOHN PUSTAVER, 978-443-4254, pustaver @swquality.com LOCATION: Waterfield Technology Group, 430 Bedford Street, Lexington DESCRIPTION: At this meeting, I will talk about phase defect removal effectiveness, process defect removal effectiveness and phase containment effectiveness. These measures are easy to compute and can help your company monitor the effectiveness of the QA process and make comparisons to industry data. That is, if your company is gathering the data to begin with. If not, you will want to discuss these measures with your manager and show him/her how useful it can be to gather the data. For those interested in the CSQE exam, questions related to these measures have appeared on previous exams. NEXT MEETING NOTE: The next meeting will be held on April 8, 1998, the second Wednesday. The Software Quality Group holds monthly meetings. Topics covered at these meetings have included software testing, inspections, ISO 9000, 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 Waterfield Technology Group, Lexington Office Park, 430 Bedford Street, Lexington, 2nd floor, next to the elevator. This is just off of route 95 (AKA 128) at the Rtes 4 & 225 exit in Lexington. Take the west bound exit. Bedford Street is on the left just before the Denny's restaurant but you can't make a left here so you have to go to the turn-around a little further up the road. 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@swquality.com. The Software Quality Group is cosponsored by the ASQ Software Division and all are welcome. Directors of the Software Quality Group are John Pustaver, American Society for Quality, Software Division, Region I Councilor and Bill Nicholson, Waterfield Technology Group. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Software Quality Consulting voice:978-443-4254 fax:978-443-6052 pustaver@swquality.com http://www.swquality.com/users/pustaver