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How Testers Can Fill the Requirements Gap[presentation] Testers frequently are frustrated by having to test a system without an adequate understanding of the expected results of the tests, often because the requirements are not well-documented. |
Robin Goldsmith, Go Pro Management, Inc.
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Better Software Conference 2005: Software Production Line Automation with Concurrent Development[presentation] In some contexts, the software development process can be optimized when it is thought of-and run-like a highly automated manufacturing production line. |
C Thomas Tyler, The Go To Group Inc
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Project Driven vs. People Driven Technical Management[presentation] Technical managers often find that their time is taken up by tasks that have the greatest urgency and those that seem to offer the most benefit. |
Marty King, Hospira, Inc.
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Life Rafts for a Drowning Project[presentation] When time is of the essence and stress is high, it's easy to find your team drowning under the weight of impossible deadlines and spiraling requirements. |
Peter Clark, Jervis B. Webb Co
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Cut the Cards When You Play for Money: Overcoming Resistance to Risk Management[presentation] In most organizations, the project game is not going particularly well-we continue high stakes wagers on business projects, but lose more often than we win. Sometimes the losses are staggering. |
Payson Hall, Catalysis Group Inc
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Cultivating High-Performing Teams[presentation] A high performance, self-governing team is a prerequisite for delivering better software products more quickly. Unfortunately, developing such a team is neither simple nor linear. |
Bobbi Underbakke, Adaptive Team Collaboration, Inc.
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Secure Software is a Management Issue, Too![presentation] Development teams are entering a new era of software development. Security will play a critical role because traditional development practices are failing in the face of poor software quality and constant hacker attacks. |
Djenana Campara, Klocwork Inc
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Lipstick on a Pig - How Illusion Leads to Crisis in Real World Projects[presentation] Change, ambiguity, and risk are key issues whether you are running a software project, managing a development team, or leading an entire organization. We learn it over and over again. |
Andy Kaufman, Institute for Leadership Excellence and Development
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A Manager's View -- Evolving from Traditional to Agile Development[presentation] Go inside a high risk, high reliability application environment with a combination of legacy and newer systems. |
Jon Hagar, Jon Hagar Educational Services
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Develop and Deliver Secure Web-based Systems[presentation] Gartner Group estimates that three-fourths of today's successful Web attacks do not happen via network security flaws but rather by entering directly through defects in application code. |
Dennis Hurst, SPI Dynamics Inc
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Agile QA - An Oxymoron?[presentation] Your software development group is adopting Agile practices. Documentation and processes now are lightweight. There are more unit tests, and all are automated. The software changes quickly with new releases every one to two weeks. |
Elisabeth Hendrickson, Quality Tree Software, Inc.
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The Return on Investment for Finding Defects in Test[presentation] For testers, finding defects is a way of life. However, we usually don't reflect on what an undiscovered defect can cost a business or how much it costs to find defects late in development. |
Geoff Horne, iSQA
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Classic Mistakes in Testing: Revisited[presentation] Some common testing practices seem appealing ... but rarely seem to actually work. Yet software development organizations choose them again and again. Project behind schedule? Just shorten the testing phase! |
Matthew Heusser, Priority Health
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Tips for Performing A Test Process Assessment[presentation] Looking for a systematic model to help improve testing practices within your team, department, or enterprise? Recently, Lee Copeland has led several, major test process assessment projects for both small and large test organizations. |
Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
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Software Quality Metrics as Agents for Change[presentation] What is the purpose of software quality metrics and what values do they provide to the organization? What metrics not only report on and but also help drive changes and improvements in software quality? |
James Bampos, EMC Corporation
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