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Meaningful Software Measurement
- Tagline:
- Minimum measurements needed to effectively manage software
- Presenter:
- Robin F. Goldsmith, JD - Click to view profile
- Provider:
- Robin Goldsmith - Click to view profile
- Duration:
- 1 day
- Description:
- To know what you are doing, you must meaningfully measure the right things at the right times in the right ways. Clearly, IT's frequent poor project results are due in large part to poor measurement. Not only do we tend to miss important measures, but we also often overwhelm ourselves with too many measurements. This interactive presentation describes a minimum set of metrics that IT needs to know and the context needed to make the measures meaningful. Ways to measure effectiveness of our practices also are shown. Techniques are suggested for overcoming resistance when getting started. Exercises enhance learning by allowing participants to practice applying practical techniques to realistic examples.
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Reviewing Requirements and Design Adequacy (Testing Early in the Life Cycle)
- Tagline:
- 21 Ways to Test that Business Requirements Are Accurate and Complete, 15 Ways to Test that System Designs Are Accurate and Complete
- Presenter:
- Robin F. Goldsmith, JD - Click to view profile
- Provider:
- Robin Goldsmith - Click to view profile
- Duration:
- 2 days (first day is presented alone as 21 Ways to Review Requirements Adequacy)
- Description:
- Most organizations do not know how to assure that requirements and design are accurate and complete. At best, they use one or two weak methods which are insufficient to help prevent costly rework and up to two-thirds of the errors which traditionally plague finished systems. This unique seminar workshop shows numerous ways to static test up-front, where payoffs are greatest. Applying the techniques successively to a real case, participants discover that each review technique reveals additional, otherwise-overlooked defects; and finding more important issues also improves meaningful customer involvement and communication.
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Estimating and Controlling Testing
- Tagline:
- Reliably defining time, effort, and resources required for testing
- Presenter:
- Robin F. Goldsmith, JD - Click to view profile
- Provider:
- Robin Goldsmith - Click to view profile
- Duration:
- 1 day
- Description:
- Unreliable estimates are a major reason managers allocate inadequate time and resources to testing. Historically, estimating has been so weak in IT that some people simply assume it is impossible to estimate IT activities accurately. Test estimates are especially prone to problems because they often depend on other (unreliable) estimates. In fact, though, it is possible to estimate accurately; and huge direct and indirect benefits can result. This interactive seminar describes key principles of effective estimating and how to apply them to the unique aspects of testing. And, rather than just being a static up-front exercise, the course shows dynamic techniques that effective estimators use throughout the project to control progress as well as to refine and improve their estimates and estimating skills. Exercises enhance learning by allowing participants to practice applying practical techniques to realistic examples.
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Proactive User Acceptance Testing
- Tagline:
- The testing that users need to be confident the software they depend on works
- Presenter:
- Robin F. Goldsmith, JD - Click to view profile
- Provider:
- Robin Goldsmith - Click to view profile
- Duration:
- 1 day
- Description:
- Projects aren’t complete until users/customers are sure the systems they depend on actually meet business requirements, work properly, and truly help them do their jobs efficiently and effectively. However, users seldom are confident or comfortable testing system acceptability. Project Managers and Testing professionals need to know how to guide and facilitate effective acceptance testing without usurping the user’s primary role. This intensive interactive seminar shows what users need to know to confidently make the best use of their time planning and conducting acceptance tests that catch more defects at the traditional tail-end of development, while also contributing in appropriate ways to reducing the number of errors that get through the development process for them to catch in UAT. Exercises give practice using practical methods and techniques.
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Proactive Testing™: Risk-Based Test Planning and Design
- Tagline:
- Win Testing Advocates by Helping Deliver Projects Faster, Cheaper, and Better
- Presenter:
- Robin F. Goldsmith, JD - Click to view profile
- Provider:
- Robin Goldsmith - Click to view profile
- Duration:
- 2 days
- Description:
- Proactive Testing™ enables you to do more effective testing in less time, while also providing the value that overcomes traditional user, manager, and developer resistance to testing. By continually refocusing on the highest risks, and applying special techniques that spot many ordinarily-overlooked risks, Proactive Testing™ makes sure the most important testing is done in available time. Moreover, by catching more defects earlier when they are easier to fix, and actually preventing many showstoppers and other errors, Proactive Testing™ also can cut developers’ time, effort, and aggravation. Following establishment of core concepts, this interactive workshop shows Proactive ways to apply powerful proven structured test planning and design techniques that produce value, not busywork. To enhance learning, participants practice each key technique in a series of exercises with various aspects of a real case fact situation.
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Making You a Leader
- Tagline:
- Starting you on the journey developing your lifetime leadership capabilities
- Presenter:
- Robin F. Goldsmith, JD - Click to view profile
- Provider:
- Robin Goldsmith - Click to view profile
- Duration:
- 2-Day Intensive Seminar Workshop Mini-Clinic plus Lifetime Learning Follow-On Program; 1-day fast track version available
- Description:
- We do projects to make change. Yet, change will not occur without leadership, and leaders are rare. Leaders make others want to do what the leader wants done. Leaders cause ordinary people to achieve extraordinary things. Managing is not the same as leading, and titles do not make leaders. Seminars can teach you to manage, but they cannot teach you to be a leader. Rather, making a leader takes special techniques--such as our personal development clinics--that can change deep-seated behaviors learned over a lifetime. However, since clinics usually last about ten weeks, this mini-clinic was devised as a more convenient alternative. This format places responsibility upon the participant to carry out an extended informal follow-on program after completion of the formal seminar workshop session. During the follow-on period, the participant uses time-condensed methods that simulate the lifetime learning which makes a leader. Therefore, commitment to carrying out these exercises is essential for successful transformation.
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Managing the Test Execution Process
- Tagline:
- Directing, controlling, and reporting on the conduct of testing
- Presenter:
- Robin F. Goldsmith, JD - Click to view profile
- Provider:
- Robin Goldsmith - Click to view profile
- Duration:
- 1 day
- Description:
- This interactive workshop addresses management aspects of carrying out tests and reporting test results and test status. Since test execution typically occupies the greatest portion of test time, it is essential to leverage limited resources to maximize defect detection and ejection. That means isolating and reporting defects so they can be removed quickly. It also means analyzing testing results to enable focusing economically on areas with the biggest payback. Finally, it involves appropriate use of automated tools and other techniques to organize and handle often huge volumes of tests and test results. Exercises enhance learning by allowing participants to practice techniques with an actual case.
This course is intended to complement the one-day Proactive Test Process Management course.
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Writing Testable Software Requirements and Use Cases Workshop
- Tagline:
- Clearly describing requirements of the product/system/software to be implemented
- Presenter:
- Robin F. Goldsmith, JD - Click to view profile
- Provider:
- Robin Goldsmith - Click to view profile
- Duration:
- 2 days
- Description:
- Poor software requirements are a major cause of costly rework, defects, delays, and dissatisfaction. Of all the factors that can impact requirements, lack of clarity is the most apparent. In turn, Testability—the ability to demonstrate that a requirement has or has not been met—is perhaps the single most effective indicator of clarity. If one cannot define how to test that a requirement has been met, then it’s unlikely the developer will be able to tell how to meet the requirement correctly; and regardless there’s no way to confirm the requirement was met. This interactive workshop consists largely of hands-on practice exercises writing clear and testable product/system/software/functional requirements/specifications and Use Cases.
This seminar focuses on the form in which software requirements and use cases are written.
As such, it complements our related book, Discovering REAL Business Requirements for Software Project Success, and our other seminars, Defining and Managing User Requirements and 21 Ways to Evaluate Requirements Aequacy, which primarily address business requirements content.
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7 Low Overhead Software Process Improvements
- Tagline:
- Finding the right changes that economically actually improve our software
- Presenter:
- Robin F. Goldsmith, JD - Click to view profile
- Provider:
- Robin Goldsmith - Click to view profile
- Duration:
- 1 day
- Description:
- Software process improvement doesn’t have to be synonymous with expensive formalized approaches, such as the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model (SEI CMM). This interactive seminar workshop describes it along with seven alternative approaches that can provide significant software productivity and quality improvements without extensive bureaucracy or organization-wide cultural change. Exercises enhance learning by allowing participants to practice applying practical techniques to realistic examples.
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Proactive Test Process Management
- Tagline:
- Maximizing Effectiveness of Limited Testing Resources and Time
- Presenter:
- Robin F. Goldsmith, JD - Click to view profile
- Provider:
- Robin Goldsmith - Click to view profile
- Duration:
- 1 day
- Description:
- Your testing process is the way testing is done in your organization and involves much more than merely procedures and paperwork, such as the people and organizational issues essential for support and success. This interactive course describes key elements a testing process needs in order to be effective and efficient and explains how Proactive Testing™ can go well beyond traditional reactive testing to deliver higher quality systems quicker and cheaper. Managing the testing process involves defining, monitoring, and actively guiding/adjusting how individual testing projects plan, design, organize, direct, and control testing of specific systems under test (SUT). Techniques are shown to identify testing and necessary supportive tasks; estimate required time, effort, and resources; keep testing on track; and monitor and evaluate the testing process itself. Exercises enhance learning by allowing participants to practice techniques.
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