Live Webinar May 27th, 2016 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
By International Institute for Software Testing (IIST)
- Are you struggling meeting demands for quality and effective testing in your organization?
- Do you feel that there has to be a better, quicker way to get things done?
- Is your quality organization delivering effective and precise work?
- Are the processes that comprise your organization fine-tuned for excellence? Do you know the value that you are bringing to your organization?
If you don’t know or aren’t sure, this webinar is for you!
Topics Covered:
- 7 Lean Software Development Principles
- Applying lean concepts to quality assurance and testing
- Identifying Waste in quality assurance and testing
- Trimming the waste
Those of us in quality face many challenges in today’s software development world. Quality Assurance and even testing is often perceived as an extra, as overhead and generally, a cost center.
To some extent, this is true.
It is an investment in the long term and quality of your product or service in where the value can come back to you in any number of ways and most are not immediate or instant.
Quality organizations that know the effectiveness of their organization and can demonstrate value are much more successful.
This course takes a look at applying Lean principles to Quality Assurance and testing processes to see if we can eliminate waste and improve.
At the end of the Session you will have:
- Been introduced to basic lean concepts and their applicability to testing and quality assurance
- Looked at the quality assurance and testing process from a Lean perspective
- Been introduced to potential areas of waste in quality assurance and testing
- Been introduced to techniques to implement improvements for potential waste areas
Presenter: Clyneice Chaney (LinkedIn profile) holds certifications from American Society for Quality as a CQM, CQA , and as a PM with a PMP. Clyneice leads process improvement, methodology development, and reengineering projects for organizations wishing to improve their software development, testing processes, and tool implementations. She serves as an examiner for Virginia ‘s State Quality Award and is currently an instructor for the International Institute for Software Testing. Clyneice is also an in demand keynote speaker at several Quality Assurance conferences.
PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality
- 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
- 5.3 Define Scope
- 8.1 Plan Quality Management
- 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance
As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’
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