San Diego Presentations

NEW DATE: Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 1st at 6:00PM. Please RSVP to news@ssq.org.

Warm-Up Topic

Our 15 minute warm-up presentation is An Overview of HP Quality Center, by Gregorio Cruz of SAIC.

Main Topic

Managing a Successful User Acceptance Test

Sara Jones, SAIC

It’s just days before you plan to go live with the new system. The User Acceptance Test (UAT) is the only thing that stands in the way. Will it be successful? Will the users devote the time they committed to so long ago to perform the tests? Will there be agreement among the users about whether the system is “acceptable” to them?—“It doesn’t do what I want” vs. “It meets the specifications.” Sara Jones describes strategies that empower test teams and users to plan and execute an efficient UAT. She describes techniques she uses to secure and maintain a time commitment from users, ensure the users are ready for UAT, manage scope creep during UAT planning, and process feedback from the users. Learn how to present the UAT results in a complete and understandable format to quickly enable the correct “Go” or “No Go” decision.

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Our July, 2009 meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 28th at 6:00PM. Please RSVP to news@ssq.org.

Topic

Baselines and Models: Duh, I Don’t Get It!

Diane Mizukami-Williams, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems

People get frustrated when they attend presentations on baselines and models and they are only taught WHAT you are required to do for baselines and models, but are not taught HOW to create baselines and models, which is where people struggle. This presentation will show how to use statistical analysis to determine the right number of baselines and how to create a useful model.

Diane received a Top 10 Presenters award for this topic at the 2009 SEPG conference.

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Our June, 2009 meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 23rd at 6:00PM. Please RSVP to news@ssq.org.

Topic

An Overview of Auditing

Edward Wu

If someone tells you that you would be audited, what is your first reaction? It is understandable if you don’t have a warm and fuzzy feeling about the audit. The fact is that auditing is an integral part of quality assurance. As quality assurance professionals, we will participate in audits from time to time. This presentation is a brief overview of auditing, its benefits, and its success factors. Its aim is to prepare you to participate in an audit. If time permits, there will be a short open forum about auditing after the presentation.

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