2004/2005 Season

The Software Quality Discussion Group meets every two weeks, from September through May. All sessions are free and advance registration is not required.

Event Schedule

Our events include "Introductory" and "Best Practice" sessions, networking events and planning meetings. Occassionally, we host vendor presentations. The schedule for this season is as follows:

Date
Type
Topic/Speaker
15-Sep-04 Best What's new in the world of AGILE - XPAU Conference highlights
Janet Gregory, Wireless-Matrix

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29-Sep-04 Open Your Essential Toolkit
Facilitated Open Discussion

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13-Oct-04 Best Project Post-mortems
Fiona Koether, Nortel

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27-Oct-04 Open Halloween War Stories
Facilitated Open Discussion

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10-Nov-04 Open The business case for "doing it right" — are we capable?
Facilitated Open Discussion

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24-Nov-04 Best The PAS project - Mixing AGILE and traditional approaches
Colin Cassie, CGI

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8-Dec-04 Soiree Sixth Annual SQDG Soiree
Open to all participants

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12-Jan-05 Best The Role of the Q/A Manager
Nina Sharpe, CGI

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26-Jan-05 Best Criteria Based OO Design Evaluation
Jenny Antoneti

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9-Feb-05 Best SimQuali - Simulation-Based Decision Support for Software Quality Assurance
Anthony Ebsworth, Securac and Jim McElroy, University of Calgary

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23-Feb-05 Best Project Support vs. Project Management Offices
Cara Fitzgerald and Roxanne Becker, EnCana

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9-Mar-05 Best Software Architectural Evaluations
Mario Barbacci, IEEE Distiguished Visitor Program Invited Speaker

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23-Mar-05 Open Estimating — for what it's worth!
Facilitated Open Discussion

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6-Apr-05 Best RUBY for Testing Web Applications
Paul Rogers, Wireless Matrix

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20-Apr-05 Best Flowcharting Processes for Documentation and Improvement
Lisa Molesky, Telvent

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4-May-05 Open Requirements — Enlightenment or Obfuscation?
Facilitated Open Discussion

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18-May-05 Best Architectural Techniques for Interoperability and Co-existence
Robert Gezelter, IEEE Distiguished Visitor Program Invited Speaker

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1-Jun-05 Planning Annual Planning Session
Open to all participants

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** Please note scheduled sessions are subject to change.

Event Details

Please see the 2004/2005 Event Details page for a listing of the events including presentation abstracts, speaker biographies, and additional event details.

Location

This year's sessions will be held at the Calgary campus of the DeVry Institute.

Sponsors

Our sponsors for the 2004/2005 season include:

Thank you to all our 2004/2005 sponsors, we greatly appreciate your support.

2004/2005 Season
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