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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Our May, 2009 meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 26th at 6:00PM. Please RSVP to news@ssq.org.

Topic

Achieving High Software Compliance and Quality

F. Alan Goodman – “The Process Guy”

Download the presentation (PDF)

All the software maturity models, standards, and regulations have a common theme: Have a solid process basis; Follow those processes operationally; Be able to prove it. Companies that do all these also get higher software quality, higher process repeatability, higher developmental controls, and a mechanism for true process improvements, reducing life cycle costs, reducing time-to-market durations, and shortening system test times.

It just makes good business sense to pay attention to this aspect of your business! It also makes good business sense to eliminate all the wasted time for employees to wonder about day-to-day operational aspects that a good process basis addresses. All these affect your bottom line cost dollars and profits especially in this current business environment.

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SSQ’s next meeting is on Tuesday, April 28th at 6:00 PM. Meeting fees are waived for this special meeting, but please RSVP to news@ssq.org in order to assist us with room selection and and meal planning.

Topic

SSQ Career Night - Job Hunting 101

If you are looking for work, might soon be looking for work, or are looking to hire, please join us this month for two jobs related presentations. This is an open meeting and SSQ membership is not required. Recruiters will be in attendance.

Download Resume Rework and Interviewing Tips (PDF)
Download the handout Effective Interviewing (PDF)
Download Effective Methods of Job Search (PDF)

Speakers

Sharonna Clishem and Aaron Smith

Adecco Recruiting

Adecco representatives Sharonna Clishem and Aaron Smith will be on site and have prepared a presentation on how to interview better and how to rework your resume.

Pattie Vargas

NextWork and The Vargas Group

Pattie has prepared a presentation on effective methods for job searching. She is a past SSQ speaker (April, 2008), and is a frequent conference speaker on the topics of Leadership, Team-building, DISC Behavioral Assessments and Performance Improvement. Her articles have been featured in various industry publications, and the The American Business Women’s Association named Pattie as one of the 2007 Top 10 Business Women.
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