FastEDUCATION™ Seminar

Seminar: Introduction to Software Quality Engineering

Duration: 3 hours

Expected Audience:  Targeted at leaders or performers who develop software, this session presents the concepts, methods, and tools for estimating software effort, cost, and duration.

Objectives:

• Review of PM Fundamentals and Framework
• Identify the characteristics of quality software
• Introduce the Capability Maturity Models for Software
• Understand the cost of quality for software
• Describe the systems and software engineering context
• Learn how to use some of the basic tools of Software Quality Engineering

Format:    Presentation / discussion in groups of 10-20.

Outline:

• Introduction
• Outline of seminar
• Materials Tour
• Rationale
• Why is Software Quality important?
• History
• Experiences?
• What is the CMM?
• SEI description
• Definitions and levels
• Assessments
• Organizations Supporting Software Quality
• SEI
• ANSI
• NIST
• ISO
• Quality Tools
• SPC
• 7 Quality Tools
• 7 Management Tools
• Summary & Session Wrap-up

Seminar Materials:

• Presentation matter
• Seminar notebook 
• Supporting resources
• Links and templates