The Role of QA in an Agile Environment
3/4/2010
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
11:00am-1:00pm
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Kell's Irish Restaurant (Upstairs Ballroom)
112 SW 2nd Ave Portland, OR 97204
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Stephanie El-Hajj
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Presented by the Quality Assurance Forum
In this presentation, Greg Smith will walk you through a process for creating an Agile lifecycle that works for your given situation. You will learn how to assess your ability to become agile, what practices to keep in your existing process, and how to test an agile lifecycle with minimal risk to your company. You will learn how to involve the entire project team in the move to a more Agile process.
In addition, Greg will discuss how an Agile Lifecycle works in practice and how the QA role changes. You will learn the role of QA in project feasibility, requirements definition, requirements refinement, adapting to discoveries, functional testing, and deployment.
By attending this event, professionals will learn: - How to bring the correct level of agility into their organization
- How to assess which existing processes to keep when moving to agile
- How the role of a tester changes in an agile environment
You will learn that QA skills are critical in an agile environment, and how you can support the mission of lowering risk and increasing delivery accuracy.
Greg Smith is president of GS Solutions Group, a company specializing in training, coaching, and mentoring teams in the adoption of agile project management techniques.
Greg has held positions as a Product Manager, Program Manager, Development Manager, ScrumMaster, and Project Manager. He has received awards for work in helping start-ups establish good software practices, and for helping large enterprises overcome bureaucracy and deliver urgent projects. Greg has worked for: Philips Electronics, R.R. Donnelley, The Seattle Times internet group, Washington Mutual, and JP Morgan Chase.
Greg is an instructor for Agile Project Management at Bellevue College in 2005, is highly involved with the Agile Alliance and acted as the Stage Producer for the Agile Adoption stage at the 2009 Agile conference in Chicago, and will be the stage producer for Agile Project Management at the 2010 conference in Nashville. Greg has also volunteered to help the PMI Agile Community of practice in their goal to "equip PMI members with Agile knowledge and skills”. In 2009 Greg co-authored Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World. This book helps companies move to a more effective development lifecycle, and is often used as a guide for entire project teams.
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Cost: $20*/$30
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Walk-In registration opens Thursday, March 4th at 11:00am
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