ASQ Calgary Events
Upcoming Events
ASQ Calgary sponsors quality-related meetings, plant tours, and educational courses, seminars, and conferences throughout the year. The list below displays our upcoming events.
- Six Sigma
March 10, 2010 at 6:00pmThis session will give an overview of the Six Sigma DMAIC process. The process will be explained by walking through a six sigma project and some of the key learning. For example, having spent many years leading process improvement initiatives using qualitative methods, the speaker was unconvinced...Read More >>• (0) Comment(s) • Permalink
- Lessons Learned in Hiring QA Professionals
SQDG: Software Quality Discussion Group
March 16, 2010 at 12:00 p.m.Jobs, Jobs, Jobs...Read More >>
How many interviews have you gone on, where the job you were interviewed for,
was not what you applied for, and possibly, not the one you were hired for?
OR...
How many interviews have you conducted where the person on the Resume doesn't
match up to the person you are...
ASQ Calgary Past Events
- Lean
QDG: Quality Discussion Group
February 17, 2010 at 6:00pmTopics will give an introduction of what lean thinking, including (1)Where lean came from;(2) What it does; (3) How to get started; (4);Specify value; (5) Map the flow of value; (6) Make value flow; (7) Pull from the customer; and (8) Seek perfection.Read More >>
- Lessons Learned Using Metrics - Are your Metrics Dumb or Smart?
SQDG: Software Quality Discussion Group
February 16, 2010 at 12:00 PMCollecting and reporting effective metrics can be a tricky business. Einstein captured it well when he noted "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted".Read More >>
Software projects have a history of measuring irrelevant and even counter-productive progress...
- Economic value of ISO standards
QDG: Quality Discussion Group
February 03, 2010 at 6:00pmThis one hour interactive session has the purpose to discuss varying practices of ISO implementation. Successful and challenging paths to obtaining ISO registration for your businesses will be analyzed based on the cost of quality model. Interactive nature of the presentation will be asking for...Read More >>
- Cost of Quality
QDG: Quality Discussion Group
January 20, 2010 at 6:00PMCost of Quality ( COQ) is at the outset is NOT the right measure of Quality as then quality is viewed as a cost and that gets into the psyche of Sr Mgt & they treat it as a cost center and there by giving scant attention and the spiral begins downwards.Read More >>
The Quality Head (if you have one at all!)...
- Lessons Learned from Test Automation
SQDG: Software Quality Discussion Group
January 19, 2010 at 12:00pmWith test automation we never really stop learning. In this session Peter and David share their insights into implementing test automation in several different organizations - examining what has worked and just as importantly what has not. Topics covered will include:Read More >>
- Test automation strategies
