Brussels Course: Adding Buisness Value Increasing ROI in Testing

Last Week I was at SWIFT, giving a course on Adding Business Value Increasing ROI in Testing. It was held in La-Hulpe area in Brussels, Belgium. I did this course with my German partner D&H.

The main course objective is to show and discuss how to optimize 3 major areas: the testing processes, the risk handling (risk based testing) and the effectiveness and efficiency of us managing our team of professionals.

We have discussed this and a lot of other good topics of discussion came like: how TPI(r) relates to Agile projects? Will some of the measurements and metrics work in an Agile world? etc'. In short, the idea behind improvement is not specific for a V model or Waterfall model, but has concepts that fit all models. But, nevertheless, one needs to adjust the tools to the right situation (as testing is of course context dependent).

We had 3 groups discussing: interfaces, Back Office and Network.

Also discussed dashboards and how they play a unique role in today's world both to find trends and identify risks (which can lead to improvement of our processes) and as management has a focus on testing and risks (see pic).

12th Year CONQUEST Nuremberg, Germany 2009

When many conferences around the world stop their operations due to the financial crisis, the Conquest (by iSQI) has not. With its 12th year in a row, the program was with the right mix, and still sponsors came. Conquest is the Quality Engineering in Software Technology, and is organized by iSQI/Germany.

iSQI organized it's 12th year Conquest testing conference and this time in Nuremberg. This year, India was the iSQI conference partner (last time it was Israel), and 5 companies were present with the delegations from India and came to present what they can offer. Meetings were held during all day Thur/Fri.

Tutorials were held on the topics: Test Management, Agile Software Development, Software Requirements, Load & Performance with high quality and international speakers and with live discussions.

Exhibitors that were present included also tsg, D&H, which presented unique courses - instructor led or via their virtual learning environment.