Preventing, Detecting, and Testing Away Defects in Agile and Non-Agile Environments
Michael Mah, Managing Partner, QSM Associates, Inc.
What might be considered the "Strategic Triad" for a QA professional? How can senior leadership see the value of effective QA teams, and give them the empowerment and resources to deliver high quality software under time pressure, whether in an Agile or Non-Agile environment?
Whether you're waterfall or agile, this presentation will uncover 3 keys to accelerating schedule by managing defect prevention, detection, and remediation by high-end QA organizations. We will talk about practices and data that reveal how to implement an end-to-end defect strategy that maximizes the likelihood of team's success.
Finally, we'll look at techniques that senior leadership can call for that uses defect curves to "predict the trajectory" of a project and its QA phases. This allows for an "in-flight" data-driven GPS-like function that can provide reliable and accurate predictive forecasts on time-to-market delivery, so that teams can respond pro-actively to hit their schedule targets and ensure correct staffing.
Join us for this exciting, interactive discussion, which will use real-world case studies to illustrate the ideas.
Speaker Biography:
As managing partner at QSM Associates Inc., Michael Mah teaches, writes, and consults to technology companies on measuring, estimating and managing software projects, whether in-house, offshore, waterfall, or agile.
He is the director of the Benchmarking Practice at the Cutter Consortium, a Boston-based IT think-tank, and served as past editor of the IT Metrics Strategies publication. With over 25 years of experience, Michael and his partners at QSM have derived productivity patterns for thousands of projects collected in its worldwide database across engineering and business applications. His work examines time-pressure dynamics of teams, and its role in project success and failure. QSM is the creator of the SLIM® model, a suite of models for software release planning, measurement, and estimation.
Michael's background began in physics and electrical engineering at Tufts University and expanded into software. His graduate training was in the field of mediation, facilitation, and dispute resolution at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Michael is also a private pilot and lives in the mountains of western Massachusettswith his two children.
