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Upcoming Events & Activities: 

February 2010

• February 8-12: Yvonne Kish will be teaching an ASQ open enrollment Software Quality Engineering course in Richardson (Dallas), Texas - for more information or to register contact ASQ at 1-800-248-1946. 

April 2010

• April 12-16: Linda Westfall will be teaching our open enrollment Software Quality Engineering - CSQE Refresher course in Dallas (Plano) - click here to register online or call (214) 544-3694. 

• April 16: Application deadline for June 5, 2010 offering of the ASQ CSQE exam.

• April 19-23: Quality Engineered Software and Testing (Quest) Conference sponsored by QAI in Dallas. 

  - Linda Westfall will be presenting a half-day tutorial on Risk Management for Testers, Tuesday morning, April 20th: Attend this tutorial for in-depth information and practical skill development on using risk management based techniques to aid in determining testing strategies, design, execution, and evaluation.  You will be provided with an overview of risk management basics.  These include definitions of risk management terminology, the importance of software risk management, the different types of software risks, and the introduction of the risk management process.  You will learn how to use various techniques for identifying and communicating testing related project and product risks.   You will then learn to analyze the identified risks through exploring the risk context, estimating risk probabilities and impacts, and calculating risk exposure.  A variety of risk handling techniques will be discussed as well as defining risk plans for testing processes and test design.  Finally, the implementation of risk handling actions will be covered, ending with the use reviews and metrics to track software testing risks.  Tutorial objectives include:

  • Understand the basic terminology and techniques of software risk management
  • Learn to identify, analyze and prioritize testing related project risks
  • Discover how to use risk management techniques to determine testing strategies, design, execution, and evaluation

  - Linda Westfall will be presenting a 2-hour workshop From Audit Requirements to Checklist to Evidence Gathering Plan, Friday afternoon, April 23rd: Checklists are used to bring order and structure to a quality audit and to ensure complete coverage within the audit scope.  They are lists of yes or no questions that correspond to the audit requirements.  In this workshop, you will learn how to translate each audit requirement, from a standard, process, specification, etc., into one or more precise, measurable, and factual checklist items.  For each of these items, you will learn to determine what objective evidence must be gathered in order to determine if the answer to the checklist item is “yes” or “no.”   You will also understand how to create an objective evidence-gathering plan for each of the checklist items.  This plan will encompass a variety of evidence gathering techniques.   An industry-based case study, using interactive discussions and hands-on exercises, will be employed during this workshop to illustrate and practice learned skills.

  - The Westfall Team will also have a booth in the exhibit area at Quest Dallas 2010.

• April 21: Late application deadline (additional $50 late application fee) for June 5, 2010 offering of the ASQ CSQE exam.

May 2010

• May 3-7: Yvonne Kish will be teaching an ASQ open enrollment Software Quality Engineering course in Oakland, California - for more information or to register contact ASQ at 1-800-248-1946. 

• May 24-26: Institute for Software Excellence sponsored by the ASQ Software Division in St. Louis.  Linda Westfall will be presenting a talk on Are You Smarter Than A CSQE on Monday, May 24th.  The Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE) Body of Knowledge covers a wide range of topics that a qualified CSQE should readily understand. Find out what it takes to become a CSQE through hands-on, challenging questions with multiple-choice answers in this lively presentation that encourages audience participation. Come have some fun while competing with contestants by answering example CSQE questions.

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The Westfall Team's Mission is to promote the advancement of software excellence by helping our clients achieve effective and efficient information technology, software engineering, software quality and project management practices.    

Our Vision of Client Success:

The Westfall Team partners with our clients to identify and provide practical solutions that improve the client’s capabilities to develop and maintain high quality software-intensive products.

We provide our clients with training solutions tailored to ensure effective transfer of practical tools and techniques that can be immediately incorporated to improve on-the-job performance.

We facilitate the incorporation of industry recognized practices into our client’s systems and processes in order to increase their capabilities and allow them to better handle the complexities driven by software size, functionality, quality and time-to-market constraints.

We help our clients establish, develop and maintain common sense systems and processes that:

• Match the way they actually do business

• Maximize quality and business value

• Minimize cycle time and rework

• Increase management insight and visibility

• Enhance organizational and individual learning

• Reduce bureaucratic overhead

• Manage and protect intellectual capital

For more information about consulting and training services provided by The Westfall Team

Send an email to:  lwestfall@westfallteam.com

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