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Better Software Conference & EXPO 2009
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Wednesday, June 10, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m

Beyond Bug Counts – A Framework for Software Quality Assessment Reporting Dean Biron, Senior Engineering Lead, VMC Consulting • Testing Focused on the quality characteristics or ‘ilities’ as a way to add significant value to a project, particularly within an Agile development world • A discussion on the need for a Quality Assessment Report as part of test projects • How to report the resulting data in a way that is meaningful and useful to someone who has to make project decisions


Wednesday, June 10, 12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.

Gaining ‘Buy-in’ by Using the Collaborative Authoring of Specifications and Other Documents David Cornwell, Pleasetech • Gaining ‘buy-in’ is vital to success • Key influencer's need to contribute to the process early to foster ownership • Collaborative preparation of documents engages key influencer's, fosters ownership and leads to buy-in.


Wednesday, June 10, 12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.

Cost Reduction Through Measurement Lori Holmes, Q/P Management Group • Improve Productivity through Benchmarking • Cut Project Costs with Accurate Estimating • Reduce Supplier Expenses through Performance Management


Wednesday, June 10, 2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Transitioning to Lean-Agile Software Development Alan Shalloway, Net Objectives • Learn why Lean is an essential skill set for companies transitioning to Agile • Learn how Lean provides guidance to creating effective Product portfolios at the Enterprise level • Learn Agile alternatives to Scrum when Scrum doesn’t work well


Thursday, June 11, 2009, 10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

Introduction to Function Points Ian Brown, International Function Point Users Group • What are function points? An overview of the industry-standard method of software sizing. • High level overview of how to count function points. • Using function points to manage your software projects and to manage your organization � make smart decisions based on true quantitative analysis.


Thursday, June 11, 12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.

Beyond the Scrum: Implementing Lean Practices in Your Software Organization Adam Monago, ThoughtWorks • Maximize your team’s throughput by monitoring your team’s limits and focusing on bottlenecks. • Reduce cycle time in your release management process through parallelization and immediate notifications of build and deployment failures. • Improve product quality and reduce churn by implementing acceptance test driven development practices

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