FastEDUCATION™ Seminar
Seminar: Quality Management Concepts
Duration: 3 hours
Expected Audience: Leaders and performers who need an understanding of how to ensure a quality result from a software development project.
Description: This session presents concepts and methods for quality assurance and quality control on a software project. Topics include basic process definition and management, design and code inspections, testing methods, configuration management, the cost of quality, and statistical quality tools.
Objectives:
- Gain an Understanding of Key Pertinent Quality Management Concepts
- Learn how to select and customize a life cycle model based on project characteristics
- Understand how to define and improve a process
- Describe reasons for tailoring software processes
- Identify the organizations that form the foundation of quality for software engineering and project management
- Understand the fundamentals of a sound configuration management system
Format: Presentation / discussion / exercises in groups of 5-20.
Outline:
- Introduction
- Outline of the Seminar
- Materials Tour
- Rationale
- Overview of Project Quality Management
- Role of the Software Quality Engineer
- Cost of Quality
- Supporting organizations important to quality
- Quality gurus and their contributions
- Quality Processes
- Basics of process definition and management
- Configuration Management
- Relationship to Software Development Life Cycle
- Fundamentals of cycle time reduction for software development
- Process Improvement
- Quality Tools
- Quality assurance
- Quality control
- Best Practices
- Templates
- Summary & Session Wrap-up
Seminar Materials:
- Presentation matter
- Seminar notebook
- Templates
