Monday, September 21, 2009
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM |
Registration Opens & Continental Breakfast |
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
Project Management |
Test Automation |
Process Improvement |
Best Practices - PM & Testing |
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1/2 Day Session |
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BREAK:
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
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Joseph Mayo
Mantech
Building Quality and Risk Management into a Project Schedule
The presentation will focus on building quality and risk management into a project schedule. The presentation will address how to develop a PMBOK compliant Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) that includes the appropriate quality management deliverables (e.g. Requirements Traceability Matrix, Quality Assurance Plan, Peer Review Milestones) and how to assure that the WBS manifests itself in the project schedule. The presentation will also present a practical approach to managing risks on large scale programs and individual projects. The risk management portion of the presentation will present risk management strategies, processes, tools, and techniques for managing risk. The presentation will also include a series of mini-workshops that will guide the audience through the risk management process and ways to fuse quality principles with risk management to deliver projects on time, on budget, with quality built in. |
Rajashri Ranadive
Consultant
Test Automation: Achieve Success With Cost-Effectiveness
Test automation exists to increase confidence about the product’s quality with reduced effort. Cost-effective automation is therefore essential, but it does not just happen by itself. It can develop only with good project management and can flourish only in an innovative environment. In this session, you will learn to set up a high-quality automation project, understand the mechanics of innovation in this field, and evaluate effectiveness of the effort. Through specific examples, you will learn to combine critical thinking and creative thinking to solve both management and technical problems.
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Akemi Micallef
TEKSystems
Discipline and Focus: the Risk-Based Approach to Software Quality
In today's tough economy, IT organizations must maintain their discipline in order to "do more with less" without compromising software quality. The challenge is, when your organization is under the pressure of tight deadlines and resource constraints, how do you remain disciplined, focused, and effective? Risk-based testing has been known as an excellent way to deal with time and budget constraints, but my presentation will take it beyond the usual ream of testing and show how it can be applied to overall project planning and other activities throughout the software life cycle. Coupled with other best practices such as the testing V-model and test automation, risk-based approach will give your organization the much needed discipline and focus without purchasing new tools or major changes to the existing processes. My presentation will include:
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Quality challenges in today's cost constrained economy
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Basic concepts
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Risk-based approach throughout the SDLC
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Risk-based testing techniques
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Examples of efficiency gained
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How to implement the risk-based approach in your organization using real project examples
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Dion Johnson
Automated Testing Institute
Calculating Return On Investment (ROI) for a Test Automation Effort
Ever used a boomerang? You throw it, and it miraculously comes back! It’s fascinating, and can bring you hours of joy. Have you ever thrown a bent stick? It kind-of looks like a boomerang, but when you throw it… not so much joy. The lesson here is that just because something looks like a boomerang, doesn’t mean it’ll come back to you when you throw it. Now let’s translate this into the automation world. Ever calculated Return On Investment for an automation effort? You project certain returns from your automation investment, and actually see those returns come to fruition! It’s fascinating! Ever seen an ineffective ROI calculation? The lesson here is that just because you plug some numbers into a formula doesn’t mean you’ll actually get the returns that are calculated. ROI calculations are not trivial, and those that treat it as such will find that their ROI calculation functions more like an angled stick than a boomerang. Join this presentation as Dion reveals the various types of ROI calculations and all the different types of factors that go into calculating ROI appropriately. In addition, learn some of the more nuanced ROI elements such as learning when an ROI calculation that looks good on paper is not necessarily a good ROI . |
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM |
Lunch & Keynote Address |
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Top 10 Things to Save Money if You are A Government Agency
Ben Berry
Chief Information Officer - Oregon Department of Transportation
During times of plenty, agencies can afford to go it alone on fiscal investments, but during lean times what are the top 10 things to save money if you are a government agency? Examine the process of collaborating across the enterprise to return the best value to the business. Optimize Value for Customers. How can the business and IS increase the value of each dollar invested in Information Systems by evaluating IS expenditures to reduce cost and leverage investments in order to deliver the highest customer value. Increase IS Project Throughput. Reach an understanding of how you and your team’s personal commitment to IT governance serve to make a difference to reduce costs while improving the capability of customers to meet their strategic business goals and bottom-line budgets.
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1:30 PM - 4:30 PM |
Project Management |
Test Automation |
Process Improvement |
Best Practices - PM & Testing |
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1/2 Day Session |
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Jeannette King
SRE, Inc
Producing Effective Project Documentation
This presentation will talk about the ways of generating project documentation while keeping cost, schedule and quality in mind. It will address how to:
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Determine your schedule-How much time to do you have to deliver your documentation?
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Define your documentation process-What is your process for gathering, producing, and delivering effective documentation?
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Perform Needs Analysis and Prioritization-What do you need to document for project to be a success?
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Gather Information-How do you get the information you need for your project documentation in a timely, efficient, and cost effective manner?
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Produce, Review, and Deliver- How do you fit your documentation lifecycle into your project plan and ensure quality delivery?
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Michael Giacometti
Consultant
A Step by Step Guide to Reducing Costs Through Functional Automation
This is a hands on session that will take participants through every step of a process, including manual testing, automated tools, and infrastructure, that was designed to reduce test execution costs by 50%, but in reality reduced it by 90%. It is a six-step process that works with but doesn’t rely on a Testing Center of Excellence, globalization, or outsourcing; it works with the staff you already have. Each participant will leave with a strategic plan and the tactical knowledge it will take to create an Automated Testing. |
Warren Badgley
GB Tech
Software System Cost Savings of Static Analysis Tools
This presentation will talk about the value of different aspects of static analysis tools and how it can help your organization or company answer the following questions:
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Does the software I am acquiring or deploying contain latent defects?
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Are there components of software to be acquired or deployed that will be troublesome or difficult to maintain?
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Should a legacy system be enhanced or scrapped and rebuilt?
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How can I get visibility into and documentation for a software system after the programmers have been (reassigned, canned, etc.)?
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How can I know the impact of making a data oriented change?
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How can I be sure that every line of code has been executed (also all branches, decisions)?
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Nagender Mathubala and Mohan Sharma
CareFirst
Reducing Test Costs by Sharing Services
This session will discuss our case study of developing a Shared Services Testing practice. How the cost is being reduced, service levels are being improved, faster and better testing is being done.
The following effect were observed:
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Management Visibility
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Knowledge Retention
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Faster ramp up and ramp down
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Integration with Configuration Management (CM)
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Correct Environment being delivered.
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4:30 PM - 6:30 PM |
Conference Reception |
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