Live, Virtual Course

Thursday-Friday February 25-26, 2021 - 10:00 am to 6:00 pm Eastern Time

Proactive SQA™ is a key basis of significant value-enhancing revisions to IEEE SQA Std. 730’s often-resisted “traffic cop” enforcement of procedural compliance. SQA also addresses but is not synonymous with traditional tail-end quality control (QC) testing, which does catch errors, but right before they go out the door when they are too expensive and risky to fix. Effective systems organizations realize SQA can and should do far more, contributing proactively to assure the software process in fact does the right things well so it truly produces high quality cheaper by catching and preventing errors early. This interactive workshop explains the six functions SQA should perform that provide far greater value, analyzes why SQA groups so frequently have failed in IS, and presents practical approaches for successfully using SQA effectively throughout any life cycle to produce high quality systems. Exercises enhance learning.

Participants 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

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

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.