Proactive Software Quality Assurance(SQA)™
This live interactive web-based course is designed to provide a comprehensive knowledge base and practical skills for anyone interested in dramatically improving project outcomes. True Software Quality Assurance(SQA) is not testing or "traffic cop" compliance. Rather, Proactive Software Quality Assurance(SQA)™ creates an environment to promotes and reliably produces software of suitable quality for your organization's needs consistent with risk.
This course shows and gives practice applying Proactive SQA™ mindset, concepts, and techniques for the six key SQA functions.
This course:
- Reveals why traditional "traffic cop" SQA usually is and should be resisted.
- Distinguishes SQA from Quality Control (QC) of intermediate software development deliverables.
- Explains the six functions SQA should perform to help assure producing software of suitable quality for the organization's needs.
This course includes:
- Key software quality assurance principles and techniques as they relate to:
- Identifying what is software of suitable quality
- Defining appropriate methods to produce software of suitable quality
- Monitoring, evaluating, sustaining, and improving software processes
- How to gain stakeholders' cooperation, support, and advocacy
Course attendees will learn:
- Why "traffic cop" compliance is usually resisted
- Effects of confusion defining system/software quality and a useful working definition
- Reasons for QA failures and factors critical to success of QA in IS development
- The six Proactive Software Quality Assurance™ functions that SQA should perform
- Proven quality management and review methods for promoting quality and preventing errors
- Measuring system/software quality and SQA/Testing effectiveness
Course objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course attendees will be able to:
- Analyze why their current SQA practices are less effective than needed and often resisted
- Apply factors critical to success of SQA in IS development
- Perform the six Proactive Software Quality Assurance™ functions that produce suitable software quality
- Coordinate Proactive SQA™ with a structured Proactive Testing™ model of which testing activities should be performed when and by whom within the life cycle
- Measure, sustain, and improve system/software quality and SQA/Testing effectiveness
Method of Instruction
This highly-interactive live presentation approximates as much as possible participants' experience in an in-person seminar. Participants examine and evaluate their current quality assurance concepts and practices, discover and practice more effective approaches and techniques, and position themselves to successfully apply Proactive Software Quality Assurance(SQA)™ in their own work environments. The emphasis is on techniques that allow the attendees to transition the skills learned in this course to their own work environments.
Target Audience
This course has been designed for quality/testing professionals, systems and business managers, project leaders, analysts, programmer analysts, auditors, product owners, scrum masters, and others responsible for producing software of suitable quality for the business's needs consistent with risk.
Registration
This is a 2-day live online course. The registration cost for this course is $599 per student.
If your organization has 3 or more students to register, you can receive a $50 discount off each registration (making the price per student $549).
Call 972-867-1172 for corporate discounts for 10 or more students.
For more information about bringing any of our courses onsite to you organization:
Visit our website at: www.westfallteam.com
Send an email to: [email protected]
Or call: 972-867-1172