General Meeting for Austin Chapter of the IIBA

General Meeting
Austin Chapter of the IIBA
Our Mission
Our mission is to enhance the skill level of Business Analysts in the central Texas region through networking, training, and career development.

Date: 08/21/09
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: St. Edwards University – Professional Education Center
9420 Research Blvd - Echelon III, Suite 200 - Austin, Texas 78759

Program: “Using the Cost of Quality Approach for Software”
Synopsis:
Cost of Software Quality (CoSQ) is a simple management technique that enables our understanding of the economic tradeoffs involved in delivering and supporting high quality software. Although this technique is commonly used in manufacturing and its adaptation to software offers much promise, it has seen little use by the software community to date. This presentation discusses the context, rationale and definition of CoSQ, as well as, organizational implementation issues. Benchmark examples from industry leaders will be presented. The relationship of CoSQ to other software success factors is also discussed. It is asserted that the proliferation of this approach will help eliminate the wide-spread and debilitating effects of poor quality software.

You don’t want to miss this meeting!

Speaker: Herb Krasner

Herb Krasner is currently a Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering, in the ECE Department at the University of Texas at Austin. There he teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in Java and C++ programming, data structures, database engineering, software design, agile methods and software process improvement; and also performs research on the economics of software engineering. He is the author of the existing model for capturing and reporting on the cost of quality in software (CoSQ) that was first defined, elaborated and published in 1997. The connection between this model and effective software engineering practices is the subject of his current research at UT. In recent years, he has been actively working in the areas of Lean and Agile Software Development approaches.
Herb has over his 36 year career in computing, he has held positions as: President, Division Manager, Chief Technical Officer, Project Leader, Chief Software Engineer, Senior Technologist, Systems Architect and Assistant/Adjunct Professor of Computer Science.

Cost: $5.00 members - $10.00 Non-members

RSVP:austinchapteriiba@gmail.com

Deadline to RSVP is: Deadline to RSVP is: 08/18/09