ASQ Calgary Events
Cutting the Mustard - Lessons Learned in Striving to Become a Superstar Tester
Event Description
As IT professionals we strive to deliver quality projects to our business stakeholders and end users. We focus on improving our project delivery by examining our development processes, encouraging continuous learning of team members, and spending time on project retrospectives to look for areas of improvement. Sometimes as we strive to improve things external to us we find that we cannot always effect change.There is something we do have control and the ability to change, ourselves. I have found that as I continually strive to become a superstar tester, I am continuously challenging myself to grow. This presentation will examine what it means to "Cut the Mustard" and will challenge attendees to cut the mustard in their own ways. By using the same continuous improvement skills we often focus externally, we can refocus that energy inwards on ourselves and redefine our own excellence. Leveraging our role in the industry of software quality and focusing first on ensuring quality within ourselves and all we do, we can effect positive change and transformation within the teams we work with.
Key Points of the Presentation include:
* Examining traits of superstar testers and what it means to "Cut the Mustard";
* How the essence of continuous improvement can be leveraged for self-improvement;
* Analyzing the pathways for growth;
* Sharing inspirational stories of incremental to monumental team transformations by individuals through their actions.
Meeting Sponsors: Integritas Solutions Inc. and P2 Energy Solutions
Speaker(s):
Nancy Kelln
Nancy Kelln is an independent consultant with 12 years of diverse experience within the IT industry. Nancy is motivated by working with teams who are implementing or enhancing their testing practices; providing adaptive testing approaches in both agile and traditional testing teams. She has coached test teams in various environments and facilitated numerous local and international workshops and presentations. She is an active member of the Calgary Software Quality Discussion Group, Association for Software Testing and the Scrum Alliance and has co-founded the Calgary Perspectives on Software Testing Workshop (POST) with Lynn McKee. Nancy has also been published in the Software Test and Performance Magazine. You can reach Nancy online at www.unimaginedtesting.ca.
When:
Date: May 18, 2010
Start Time: 12:00pm
Event Duration: 1 hours
Cost:
Contact:
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The Software Quality Discussion Group will, once again, be meeting on the 3rd Tuesday of every month from September through May. All meetings will be held in the 2nd floor XCHANGE Conference Center (also accessible from the +15) of the Standard Life Building at 5th Avenue and 6th Street S.W. The meeting time is from noon to 1:00 p.m. The meetings start at 12:00 p.m. SHARP, so please be on time. Refreshments and a light lunch are provided by our meeting sponsor(s). Remember that all sessions are free but we still require advance registration by RSVP.
The theme for the 2009/2010 season is Lessons Learned in Software Quality and Testing.
Where:
Standard Life Building
639 5 Ave SW
Calgary, AB T2P 0M9
Event Room: 2nd flr XCHANGE Conference Center
Accessible from the +15.
