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COURSE OVERVIEW
Plagued with quality issues? Our one day seminar discusses upstream and downstream practices for improving software quality.

From proper requirement specs, code reviews, test script generation and testing, you’ll learn skills, tips, and effective methods to dramatically improve your organizations software quality. If your organization is adversly effected by quality issues, register for our course today.

BENEFITS
  • Learn the fundamentals of quality system creation and management
  • Learn to create an environment of excellence instead of an environment of heroes 
  • Learn strategies and techniques to immediately improve the quality of
    critical processes in your environment
  • Learn to discern important from unimportant metrics to measure
  • Learn the proven and widely-accepted models for process improvement
    (PDCA, I.D.E.A.L., Kaizen)
  • Learn how to construct an Execution Plan for those one-off critical processes
  • Learn the similarities and differences between ISO-900x, CMMi, Six Sigma, COBIT, and ITIL
  • Learn an effective approach to rolling out a quality system
  • Learn about various types of audits and how each can improve its sphere of influence
  • Learn the value and proper implementation of a quality checklist
  • Learn how to create accountablity for processes assigned within your group


WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Project Mangers, Developers, Database Designers, Development Managers, Development Directors, VP’s of Software Development, CTO, CIO


THE SEMINAR INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOPICS
COURSE ACTIVITIES

 

Part I – Evidence of a Quality Void

1.       Proactive vs. Reactive Environments

2.       Excellence vs. Heroics

Part II – Quality System Essentials

1.       Quality System Components

2.       A Culture of Quality

3.       Myths about Quality

4.       Measuring the Cost of Quality

Part III – The Big 5 Quality Management Systems

1.       ISO 900x

2.       CMMi

3.       Six Sigma

4.       ITIL

5.       COBIT

6.       How do they compare?

Part IX – System Performance Metrics

1.       Company Metrics

2.       Department Metrics

3.       Service Metrics

4.       Project Team Metrics

5.       Employee Metrics

Part V – Measuring Defects in Software

1.       Cost of correcting software failures over time

2.       Avoiding ‘Quality Debt’

3.       Factors Creating Quality Debt

4.       Calculating remaining defects in tested software: Rayleigh

5.       Calculating remaining defects in tested software: Defect Injection

6.       Software Defect Metrics

Part VI – Quality Improvement Goals

1.       Improve Project Planning

2.       Increase Defect Containment

3.       Increase Software Reliability

4.       Decrease Software Defect Density

5.       Increase Customer Service Experience

6.       Reduce Cost of Nonconformance

7.       Increase New Development Yield

8.       Increase Defect Removal Yield

Part VII – The Quality Cycle

1.       Understanding System Theory

2.       System Management Tools

1.       Checklist

2.       Pareto Chart

3.       Control Chart

4.       Scatter Chart

5.       Cause and Effect Diagram

3.       Common Quality Cycles

1.       PDCA

2.       I.D.E.A.L.

3.       Kaizen

4.       Cycle Times

5.       The Singular Event

Part IIX – The Three P’s of a Quality Management System

1.       The Process

2.       The Proof

3.       Process Improvement

4.       Quality Audits

Part IX – Rolling Out a Quality System

1.       What to expect

2.       Managing expectations

3.       Visible Management

4.       What you can do today

5.       Planning your own Quality Management System



ATTENDEES PERFORM THE FOLLOWING:

  • Quality system evaulation
  • Computing your Cost of Quality
  • System performance metrics
  • Measurement Tools & example metrics
  • List common development processes
  • Create a quality process worksheet
  • Create an Execution Plan
  • The mighty checklist article
  • Create a quality system rolllout plan
  • Seminar take-a-way list
  • Create a back-to-work plan
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