San Diego Presentations

Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 28 at 6:00PM. Please RSVP to news@ssq.org.

Topic

Delivering Results with Measurement & Analysis

Robin Hammers, Process Engineer at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems

This workshop focuses on combining structured problem solving tools into a three page Excel workbook. This tool provides the infrastructure to support efficient and effective measurement and analysis. It simplifies the process while meeting all the requirements of the CMMI model. You will walk away with a tool kit that you can immediately begin using.

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Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 22 at 6:00PM. Please RSVP to news@ssq.org.

Topic

Risk Management

Edward Wu, Quality Assurance Advisor at CareFusion

Risk is inevitable in everyone’s life. It is as natural as air, water, and fire. The presentation will provide an overview of risk management, the tools for identifying risks, the types of risks in software, and the contributions of software quality engineers to risk management.

About Our Speaker

Edward Wu has over ten years of experience in quality assurance for software products. These activities include quality planning, risk management, software V&V, auditing, process improvement, and regulatory compliance. He is an ASQ CBA, ASQ CQA, and ASQ CSQE.

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Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 27th at 6:00PM. Please RSVP to news@ssq.org.

Topic

How to Identify, Collect, and Use Defect Metrics

Chris Holl, Director of Quality at DriveCam

Last month Chris shared his experiences in implementing defect management programs from both a cultural and technical perspective. This month’s talk picks up the next steps. Through the process of managing defects, great amounts of data are collected. These defect data provides a wealth of information for project management and process improvement. This talk will present some very specific measures, how to gather and filter the data, compute the metrics, and use the information to make better decisions and monitor processes. Although it would be helpful in context to have attended the March meeting, we’ll start with a brief review so this presentation stands on its own.

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