Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 17th at 6:00PM. Please RSVP to news@ssq.org.

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DO178B - An Overview and Background on Civil Software Certification Standards

David Cirulli, CEMSol

This topic deals with the discussion of the FAA guidance on civil software development for commercial aircraft — DO-178B/ED-12B SOFTWARE CONSIDERATIONS IN AIRBORNE SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT CERTIFICATION. Starting with the inception of DO-178 along with the history of change that lead to DO-178B and now the soon to be released DO-178C, this session provides a top level view of what it means to create software for airborne systems, the pit-falls and hurdles of FAA compliance and some light-hearted discussion on applicable systems and why avionics engineers desire to be “certifiable.”

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

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System Validation for Healthcare Applications

Jesse Martinez and Kenna Bridgmon

Replacing or upgrading a patient medical record or financial system in a healthcare facility is a major undertaking. Implementations require highly specialized staff and system validation by clinical and non-clinical hospital staff. In this session you will learn about the challenges and complexities of system validation in a healthcare setting. What level of testing is required when replacing a legacy system with 30 to 40 downstream applications?

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

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The Score

Gregg Oliver, Pathfinder Communications

Have you ever wanted to learn to persuade a decision maker or inspire a team? Are you confident that you can soothe an irate customer or convince people of an idea’s merits? Do you feel capable of successfully delivering constructive criticism? Would you like to be the person recognized as the person who “really makes things happen”?

Face-to-face communication is not a talent that people are born with; it is a learned skill. You need to know “The Score”. In this session, you will learn the 12 key factors in transforming your critical discussions into productive and how to implement them. Using this, you will be able to impact and persuade a decision maker, inspire a team, soothe an irate customer, convince people of an idea’s merits, and more! You will learn to understand and to be understood.

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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.

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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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