Management Track

QUEST provides test manager, project manager, and application manager sessions from across all tracks to increase your knowledge of best practices for software engineering and testing. Additionally, on Wednesday and Thursday, managers can attend a track focused on people and team skills, organizational change, quality management, and measurement. Click on session titles to read abstracts and learn more about the presenters.

MONDAY & Tuesday CLASS

Manager’s Solutions Workshop
Nancy Kastl and Tom Ticknor, QAI Global Institute

TUESDAY TUTORIALS

Estimation Clinic: Methods, Maturity and Money
Patricia A. Eglin, David Consulting Group

Test Assessments: Practical Steps to Assessing the Maturity of your Organization
Mike Ennis, Accenture

Increasing the Quality of the Product in a Project Focused Environment
James Vaughan, Ectropics, Inc.

Metrics Showdown: Agile vs. Waterfall
Shaun Bradshaw and Bob Galen, Zenergy Technologies

Ready to Change: Personal and Organizational Adoption to Change
Jeanette Bordelon, Bordelon Consulting, Inc.

WEDNESDAY SESSIONS

The Yin and Yang of Metrics
Shaun Bradshaw and Bob Galen, Zenergy Technologies

Quality Application Delivery Leadership in a Large Organization
Michael Baldwin, JPMorgan Chase

Testing: The Art of Not Testing
James Campbell, Tulkita Technologies, Inc.

Invading the Beehive:Test Planning for Success
Michael Lawler, NueVista Group

Assessing Your Test Organization using Test Maturity Model (TMM)
Mike Ennis, Accenture

Leading Change
Susan Slater, Corvus International

THURSDAY SESSIONS

Building and Managing High Performance Teams
Yolonda Kennedy, WellPoint, Inc.

Making Distributed Testing Teams Work
Jim Holmes, Telerik

“If I Can See It, Why Can’t You”
Elizabeth Glaser, PhD and Joyce Sattovia, The Boeing Company

Panel Discussion on IT Disciplines: Collaboration, Competencies, and Careers
Leaders from PMI-Chicagoland, Chicago IIBA Chapter, CQAA, C-SPIN and IEEE Chicago Section