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STAREAST 2012
Test and Quality Leadership Summit
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Program Chair, Linda Hayes, Worksoft, Inc.
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A tight economy increases the competition for budget and resources, making it vitally important to understand what your stakeholders key business drivers are and what testing can do to add the most value. Join in the conversation with your peers as experienced senior managers share ways to generate grass roots support and make a compelling business case for your testing strategy. Find out which tactics are most effective for delivering measurable value from testing efforts.
At the 2012 Test and Quality Leadership Summit, program chair Linda Hayes brings together senior industry leaders—Sandra Keaveny, Senior Manager of Performance Improvement at Ernst & Young LLP; Ronda McCarthy, Test Strategist at Wells Fargo Internet Services; and Shoeb Javed, CTO of Worksoft—for an interactive exchange of ideas and experiences.
Bring your biggest issues and challenges to the Test and Quality Leadership Summit where you can draw on the knowledge and experiences of these leaders and your fellow managers who may have already faced and solved some of your issues. You’ll hear what’s working—and not working—and have the opportunity to share your experiences and successes. The Test and Quality Leadership Summit is a perfect opportunity for you to:
• Participate in insightful and informative sessions focusing on leadership issues
• Meet and network with your peers in the industry
• Join in the “think tank” discussion with industry veterans
• Develop new ideas and action plans for innovation within your organization
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5:30 p.m. • Reception — Think Tank Issues Identification: As a Leader, What is Keeping You Up at Night?—Linda Hayes, Worksoft, Inc.
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| 8:00 a.m. • Registration and Breakfast |
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Ronda McCarthy, Test Strategist, Wells Fargo Internet Services
You're a busy QA manager, technically competent, and good at handling the day-to-day demands of the job. You maintain a constellation of working relationships with testers, devSaelopers, business analysts, project and program managers, and your own senior managers. So, if you want to re-engineer your test process, how do you tackle such a big challenge when your focus is tactical and your hands are already full? Ronda McCarthy shares her insights and invites discussion about how we can use company business drivers—together with strategic thought and political insight—to build a case for improving our testing. Discuss ways to identify what needs improving and how to assure that your initiatives continue to thrive over time. Learn from the wins and losses of other teams and projects to stimulate your own creativity and pave the way for success. Breaking into small groups, you’ll find and share new ways to raise your visibility and increase your political capital to improve both the quality of your products and your own job satisfaction. |
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| Ronda McCarthy has spent the past fourteen years of her thirty-five-year IT career as a QA manager in the financial services sector. While working to keep embarrassing stories about company software off the front page of the Wall Street Journal, Ronda tries to squeeze in enough strategic thinking and political awareness to keep the QA discipline alive and moving forward. While bad press is a key business driver in the financial industry, every QA manager can be challenged to prove ROI on the QA investment when the most tangible result is “nothing bad happened.” Ronda has seen some approaches that have been successful, and some good initiatives gone bad. Believing we can learn from each other’s experiences, Ronda is ready to share her observations and insights with her peers and colleagues. |
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| 9:30 a.m. • Networking Break |
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Shoeb Javed, Chief Technology Officer, Worksoft, Inc.
Let’s face it. We live in a world where product release timelines for business critical projects are measured in days and weeks rather than in months and years. If you are holding on to some quaint notion that there will be sufficient time set aside toward the end of the project for testing, forget about it. How does quality assurance stay relevant and even flourish in this fast-paced, high-risk environment? Shoeb Javed leads a lively exploration of the new economics of QA and testing, challenging traditional QA models and old assumptions about how to measure success. Work with other participants and discover new ways to enthusiastically embrace the need for speed and operational efficiency. Make your organization indispensable to the business and, in turn, get greater mind share in strategic corporate objectives where most of the funding gets allocated.
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| Shoeb Javed, chief technology officer at Worksoft, is responsible for the technology strategy, software development, quality assurance, and customer support for all Worksoft solutions. As CTO, Shoeb also works with quality assurance and the business leaders of some of the largest global fortune 1000 corporations to help automate testing of complex packaged enterprise applications to speed up project timelines and improve operational efficiencies. During his diverse twenty year career, Shoeb has successfully led the development of next generation enterprise software, digital media, and converged telecommunications solutions. |
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| 10:45 a.m. • Networking Break |
| 11:00 a.m. • Think Tank Session: Leadership Solution Brainstorm and Discussion |
| 12:30 p.m. • Networking Lunch Buffet |
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Sandra Keaveny, Senior Manager of Performance Improvement, Ernst & Young LLP
Think you know who your stakeholders are? Think again. In today's high risk software development and heightened regulatory environment, software quality often reaches into the boardroom and beyond. Sandra Keaveny reveals exciting opportunities for leveraging your regression tests and other testware for risk management, governance, and compliance. Join your peers and Sandra to explore ways to save your company time and money in its efforts to verify internal controls and reduce risks at the corporate level. Sandra leads you through the experience of one company that was able to deliver substantial savings by applying test automation disciplines to produce automated audit trails of internal compliance. Then, you and other participants will work together to brainstorm and share ideas on how you can further leverage testware to expand your stakeholder list, add significant business value, and increase your test team’s profile up the food chain.
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| Sandra Keaveny has more than twenty-five years of business experience, leading strategic corporate directives. She has led twelve full lifecycle SAP implementations as well as enterprise-wide business transformation programs. Among her most recent projects, Sandra led the global testing of a major automotive company's software upgrade, across multiple applications and involving substantial automated as well as manual tests. She also led the technology work stream for a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical manufacturer to enhance product costs, inventory, and intercompany profit elimination visibility. As managing director of IT for a $4B chemical manufacturer, Sandra directed the applications development program moving them to a globally centralized landscape. |
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| 2:30 p.m. • Wrap-up and Ongoing Informal Discussion with Speakers and Attendees |
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