Manager's Solutions Workshop

The 2-day Manager’s Solutions Workshop is an exclusive event for managers during QUEST   
Chicago and will be held on April 20 and 21.

The Manager’s Solutions Workshop focuses on the top challenges facing managers in building, testing, and delivering quality software applications and products in today’s fast-paced and demanding environment. This intense and interactive workshop provides a unique opportunity for managers to learn from the QAI Global Institute’s professional staff and industry leaders and to discuss issues with their peers from other companies to leverage group skills and knowledge in developing pragmatic solutions.  Each attendee will have the opportunity to have their specific challenges and concerns addressed during the workshop. An example of some of the challenges that have been addressed in past Manager’s Solutions Workshops include:

• Proving the value of software quality and testing
• Budgeting for software changes
• Defining quality and testing metrics
• Improving the software testing process
• Building quality in throughout the software development process
• Making test automation work
• Shrinking testing cycle time
• Estimating the testing effort
  

Why Attend

QAI Global Institute’s studies show that if an IT organization forms an internal committee to develop a solution to a current challenge, the cost to the organization can range from $10,000 to $50,000. In addition to the cost of time for internal resources, there are lost opportunity savings and other benefit deficiencies from the delay in implementing a solution. By attending the Manager’s Solutions Workshop you will:

• Get solutions to your specific work challenges
• Focus on strategic and future oriented issues
• Connect with peers who can be contacted in the future to discuss work challenges
• Have the opportunity for one-on-one discussions with peers and leading experts on confidential topics that cannot be discussed in a group setting  

Worskhop Format

The input to this workshop is the software quality challenges that the workshop’s participants are facing, plus the input received from the companies and organizations affiliated with the QAI Global Institute. Prior to the Manager’s Solutions Workshop, participants submit a list of their current challenges. These challenges are consolidated into a list of potential topics, which are ranked in order of importance by the workshop participants at the beginning of the workshop.

Each challenge is introduced to the workshop participants, who then break into small work groups to develop strategies and solutions for the challenge based on their lessons learned and shared knowledge. Using the QAI Global Institute’s “six-cubed’ approach, each group presents their proposed solution which is critiqued by the workshop’s leading experts, and from the various solutions presented, consensus techniques are used to identify the best-of-the-best solutions. Additional time is spent as needed to assure the workshop participants understand how the solution works. Participants will leave the workshop with a series of fully-developed actionable solutions to today’s quality challenges.

Connections Dinner

In addition to the two-days interactive workshop, participants will also have the opportunity to attend the Manager’s Connection Dinner. This evening will provide the workshop attendees a chance to discuss the topics and related quality issues in a more relaxed setting, and provides an ideal opportunity for networking with peers and exchanging ideas.

Who Should Attend

This workshop is designed for managers responsible for the building, testing, and delivering quality software applications within their companies or software products for the marketplace. Persons who would benefit the most from attending the Manager's Workshop are those holding positions of, or similar to:

• CIOs and CTOs
• IT/IS Vice Presidents and Directors
• Quality Managers
• Quality Assurance Managers
• Testing Managers
• Project Managers

Don’t miss this great opportunity to be part of a select group of managers and industry experts who will aggressively tackle today’s most pressing quality issues!

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