From pustaver@swquality.com Sun Nov 8 19:09:13 1998 Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 20:07:00 GMT From: John Pustaver Subject: REMINDER - Software Quality Group Meeting, Wednesday, Nov 11, 1998, Building and Retaining a High Performance SQA Organization Hi everyone, Note that we are now back to meeting on our traditional 2nd Wednesday of the month. I hope to see you at the meeting. John Software Quality Group Meeting Meetings of the Software Quality Group are held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month (with occasional exceptions) at the facilities of Waterfield Technology Group, 430 Bedford Street, Lexington, Massachusetts (see below for directions). MEETING DAY & DATE: Wednesday, Nov 11, 1998 TIME: 6:15 PM HEADLINE: Building and Retaining a High Performance SQA Organization SPEAKER: Michael D. Sowers, executive vice president of Software Development Technologies MORE INFO: John Pustaver, 978-443-4254, pustaver@swquality.com LOCATION: Waterfield Technology Group, 430 Bedford Street, Lexington DESCRIPTION: This talk with present several different organizational models for implementing a software quality function within an enterprise. Software test engineering and software test leadership traits will be discussed and experiences will be shared in how to secure, retain and motivate the software verification and validation staff. With the proven approaches discussed in this talk, you will be able to review your own organization's current or planned implementation of a software quality group and leave with some ideas on how to improve or start a software evaluation team. Michael D. Sowers, executive vice president of Software Development Technologies, has over two decades of experience in the engineering and quality fields with extensive experience in requirements gathering, defect prevention techniques, defect containment approaches, software verification and validation practices, software engineering methodologies, assessment practices and pre/post release measurement systems. Michael was the Group Director of Quality and Product Validation at Cadence Design Systems, where he lead the company wide strategic quality planning and software verification and validation activities for an internationally distributed team. Prior to Cadence Michael was with Compaq and NCR corporations where he created and lead development, quality and testing organizations in Japan, the United Kingdom, Holland, India and the USA. NEXT MEETING NOTE: The next meeting will be held on Dec. 9, 1998, the 2nd Wednesday. Derek Kozikowski will speak on "Managing Test Cases for Useful Metrics." 1998-1999 Software Quality Group Calendar Dec. 9, 1998 Managing Test Cases for Useful Metrics Derek Kozikowski, CSQE, Senior Software Quality Engineer, Marcam Solutions Jan. 13, 1999 Using Historical Defect Data Jeff Singer to Predict Time of Project Completion Feb. 10, 1999 Test Automation with Robot Jeff Brooks, Rational Mar. 10, 1999 Improving Test Effectiveness Steve Rakitin, Consultant and author Apr. 14, 1999 Use Case Modeling Purr McEwen, Waterfield Technology Group May 12, 1999 Optimum Software Testing Bill Silver, Principal, Quality Fractals June 9, 1999 Open 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. 430 Bedford Street is on the left in Lexington Office Park 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 co-sponsored by the ASQ Software Division and all are welcome. Directors of the Software Quality Group are John Pustaver, Region I Councilor, American Society for Quality, Software Division 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