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As the economy stabilizes and begins to improve, what should software leaders—test managers, development managers, IT directors, software executives, and CIOs—focus on to ensure that testing adds the maximum value to the organization? The Testing & Quality Leadership Summit is a unique opportunity for software leaders to share ideas and gain new insights into today’s software testing issues.
Program chairs Ross Collard and Rob Sabourin invite you to join senior leaders from the industry—Jane Fraser, Electronic Arts; Andy Kaufman, Institute for Leadership Excellence & Development; and Goranka Bjedov, Google—to share your experiences and ideas as you engage with summit participants in thoughtful discussions about the pressing testing and quality issues we all face.
The Software Testing & Quality Leadership Summit provides the perfect opportunity for you to:
• Meet and network with your peers in the industry
• Participate in insightful and informative sessions focusing on testing and quality solutions
• Join in the "think tank" discussion on test leadership issues
• Develop new ideas and action plans for innovation within your test organization
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Who Should Attend?
The Software Testing & Quality Leadership Summit is testing, software, and IT leaders who are looking for innovative ways to lead their organizations toward better software quality and improved testing productivity. Whether you are experienced in managing software testing and QA or new to the field, the Testing & Quality Leadership Summit offers you a unique opportunity to start or to continue your work toward being a great test leader.
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| 5:00 p.m. • Welcome Reception — Think Tank Issues Identification: As a Leader, What Is Keeping You Up at Night? - Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com |
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Jane Fraser, QA Director, Electronic Arts
When doing more with less is all too often the norm, retaining your team’s capabilities and a positive outlook is tough. Uncertainties are many: downsizing, offshoring, outsourcing, rumors, mergers, acquisitions, budget cuts, overexpansion, jostling for advantageous position, extreme competition for staff, and more. These challenges can result in all sorts of stresses on your team—and on you personally. Jane Fraser, who has lived through many of these issues herself, explores how stresses can impact your team and how you—as their leader—must work to keep everyone focused on the right goals without stressing out. Find out how, by managing emotions and information, the team can learn to direct itself and determine what it needs to do to get the job done. Discover new processes and approaches to mitigate stress and work through the inevitable uncertainties that crop up at work. Don’t let the rough waters undermine your team dynamics. Instead, take charge and lead your team to a new place where— together as one—they are empowered to manage difficult challenges. |
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Andy Kaufman, Institute for Leadership Excellence & Development, Inc.
Today, how do you deal with difficult people who have the power to impede your ability to deliver? How can you persuade a disinterested party to act on your needs when you don’t have direct authority? How can you find time to build rapport when you are overwhelmed with day-to-day work and struggling to survive? How do some people appear to succeed naturally, almost effortlessly, when you seem to struggle? The secret is simple—it’s all about relationships. In this dynamic session, Andy Kaufman explores the relationship-building skills you must develop to advance your projects—and your career. Through group interaction, you’ll discover new insights into building mutual respect, practice empathetic listening techniques, and deepen your understanding of different personality types. Learn what networking is—and isn’t—and how to increase the effectiveness of your networks and influence. Return to work with new tools for developing your personal effectiveness at work—and at home. |
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Goranka Bjedov, Capacity Planning Engineer, Facebook
Quality tests, which focus on predicting a system’s readiness for delivery, provide the project team, senior management, and client/user constituents with important information while finding late-stage defects. Usually, quality tests apply to the system as a whole rather than at the component level. Productivity tests, which run before code is checked into the code-base, increase confidence that a developer’s additions and updates work correctly and improve productivity by enabling developers to continue with new assignments more quickly. Most unit tests, integration tests, and micro performance benchmarks fall into the productivity category. Frequently, its proponents feel productivity testing is the only kind of testing needed on a project today. So, do we still need testing for quality? Is it possible that testing approaches of the past few decades are now passé? Goranka Bjedov engages summit participants in speculating on the future of both quality and productivity testing. Find out what Goranka and your peers think the next few years will bring as businesses continue to focus on maximizing value across the organization. |
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Join with your peers in an engaging and highly interactive session to discuss the issues that affect you most. Using answers to the question “As a Leader, What is Keeping You Up at Night?” posed at Thursday’s evening reception, participants will form small groups to work on finding solutions to pressing test management issues. Discussions will review identified issues, barriers to change and focus on innovative strategies and practical next steps. At the end of the think tank, all feedback will be collected and posted online to encourage further collaboration.
Learn more about Ross Collard & Rob Sabourin |
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