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Past Meetings and Materials

June. 24, 2010

"Project Management Processes (PMI) and Quality Management"

Grace Shi, Project Manager
Coast Capital Savings

Download Presentation: VanQ-June2010-PMIQM.pptx


May. 27, 2010

"Analyzing Performance Test Data"

Carles Roch-Cunill, Test Lead for System Performance
McKesson Medical Imaging Group

Download Presentation: analyzingperformancetestdata.ppt


Apr. 29, 2010

"Usability 101 Testing Primer"

Elizabeth Snowdon, Business / Web / Usability Analyst
Consultant and Contractor

Download Presentation: Usability Testing 101 - An Introduction


Mar. 25, 2010

"Automated Testing of Web Services with SOAPUI"

Paul Vasak, QA Lead and Chris Clarke, Sr. DBA
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers

Download Presentation: RBA_SOAPUI.pdf


Jan. 28, 2010

"Inter-cultural Issues in the Workplace"

Jim Brosseau, Principal
Clarrus Consulting Group


Nov. 26, 2009

"Applying Dynamic Content to Quality Courses"

Dan Zrymiak, CSSBB, CMQ/OE, CSQE, IT OpEx Lead
Accenture AUBPOS

Download Presentation: Dynamic Content (14-AUG-2009).ppt


Oct. 29, 2009

"Test Automation: Building Your Business Case"

Trevor Atkins, Principal Consultant
Silverpath Technologies

Download Presentation: Silverpath-TestAutomationBusinessCase-091101.pdf


Sep. 24, 2009

"Formal Task Management Process Using Group Estimations Based On Time-Boxing"

Gihan B. Madawala, Test Lead
Modular Mining Systems

Download Presentation: EstimationsBasedOnTimeBoxingVer2.ppt


Jun. 25, 2009

"Leading and Managing QA Testing Teams - A Panoramic View"

Jackson Lee, MBA, MASc, BASc
QA Testing and Project Management Consultant

Download Presentation: VanQ_2009_06_25_JacksonLEE_version2.PPT


May 28, 2009

"The Benefits of Automation"

Justin Hollander, QA Developer/Analyst
Squirrel Systems of Canada

Download Presentation: Automation at Squirrel.pptx


Apr. 30, 2009

"The Essence of Performance and Load testing"

Gihan B. Madawala, Test Lead
Modular Mining Systems

Download Presentation: Essence of Performance and Load testing VanQ 30 April 2009.ppt, Tool Evaluation process and requirements VanQ 30 April 2009.doc


Mar. 29, 2009

"Ways to Deal With Stress in the Current Economic Volatility"

Dr. Yaya de Andrade, Registered psychologist with the B. C. College of Psychologists (#613), and a listee with the Canadian Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology (# 04667)

Download Presentation: Stress.pdf


Feb. 26, 2009

"Metrics - Thinking In N-Dimensions"

Trevor Atkins, Principal Consultant
Silverpath Technologies

Download Presentation: Silverpath-MetricsThinkingInNDimensions-090226.pdf


Jan. 29, 2009

"Making Health IT a Team Player"

Ken Wong, Senior Systems Analyst
McKesson Medical Imaging Group

Download Presentation: Making.Health.IT.a.Team.Player.pdf


Nov. 27, 2008

"Beyond Agility - Are There Gaps In Our Thinking?"

Robert Goatham
Calleam Consulting

Download Presentation: A.first.principles.look.at.Agility_v2.pdf


Oct. 30, 2008

"Capturing Wild Requirements for Testing"

Trevor Atkins, Principal Consultant
Silverpath Technologies

Download Presentation: Silverpath-CapturingWildRequirementsForTesting-081030.pdf


Sep. 25, 2008

"Maximize Your QA Team's Contribution to Successful Project Delivery"

Grace Shi, PMP, MBA, MEng

Download Presentation: Maximize QA's contribution to successful project deliveries.ppt


Jun. 26, 2008

"Write Your Quality Story"

Dan Zrymiak, CSSBB, CMQ/OE, CSQE, IT OpEx Lead
Accenture AUBPOS

Download Presentation: VanQ_Write.ppt


May 29, 2008

"Increasing Test Effort Estimation Effectiveness"

Trevor Atkins, Principal Consultant
Silverpath Technologies

Download Presentation: Silverpath-TestEffortEstimates-080529.pdf


Apr. 24, 2008

"Testing the Extreme"

Jay Marino
Eclipsys Corporation

Download Presentation: Testing the Extreme.pdf


Apr. 24, 2008

"A Match Made in Heaven", "GO Recruitment"

Raymond To and Maryann Boychuk, Martyne Lacoste
GO RECRUITMENT, Ventyx

Download Presentation: A Match Made in Heaven.ppt, 22080327VanQPresentation.ppt


Feb. 28, 2008

"The Value of Web Application Security Testing"

Rodrigo de Carvalho, Rational Technical Specialist
IBM Software Group

Download Presentation: VanQFeb282008.pdf, IBM Proof of Technology.doc


Jan. 31, 2008

"Actually, It IS All About You!"

Jim Brosseau, Principal
Clarrus Consulting Group

Download Presentation: All About You.pdf


Nov. 29, 2007

"The Day You'll Look Forward to Receiving/Conducting a Quality Audit"

Rob MacNeil, Manager Quality and Regulatory Affairs
McKesson Medical Imaging Group


Oct. 25, 2007

"QA the EA Way. It's in the game because we made sure it was!"

Mike Butler, Matt York, Kayla Kinnunen, Edwin Yiu, Tamara Sciamanna
Electronic Arts (EA)


Sep. 27, 2007

"Sharepoint 101"

Medhat Elmasry, Instructor
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)


Jun. 28, 2007

"Patterns in the Decision Engine"

Robert Goatham, Project Manager
IBM

Download Presentation: VANQ_25Jun07_Patterns in the Decision Engine.ppt


May 24, 2007

"Quality Attributes Primer"

Jim Brosseau, PMP, Principal
Clarrus Consulting Group

Download Presentation: Software Quality Attributes.pdf, Quality Attributes.xls


Apr. 26, 2007

"Borland's Strategy For Quality Management Lifecycle"

Erik Schultz, Senior Solutions Engineer
Borland

Download Presentation: BORL_OviewUse.ppt


Mar. 29, 2007

"Software Safety: An Oxymoron?"

Ken Wong, Senior System Analyst
McKesson Medical Imaging Group

Download Presentation: VanQ March 2007.ppt


Feb. 22, 2007

"How Requirement Management Can Impact Product Quality"

Grace Shi, PMP, MBA, MEng

Download Presentation: Requirement Management and Product Quality.ppt


Jan. 25, 2007

"SW Quality Assurance in CMMI"

Josip Pajk, BScEE

Download Presentation: CMMI_2007.ppt


Nov. 30, 2006

"Effective Software Testing - Tools And Strategies For Project Success"

Rodrigo de Carvalho, Rational Technical Sales Specialist
IBM Software Group


Nov. 16, 2006

"A Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas"

Linda Rising, Consultant

Download Presentation: Myths.pdf


Oct. 26, 2006

"Attacking Code Quality Issues"

D'Arcy Smith, Instructor
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)

Download Presentation: DarcyS_Presentation.zip


Sep. 28, 2006

"Quality Assurance across the Software Development Lifecycle"

Chris Strand, Subject Matter Expert
Compuware


Jun. 29, 2006

"Team Driven Automation Using Commercial And Locally Developed Tools"

Ken Creamore, Senior QA Manager
Simply Accounting Group of Sage Software (Canada)

Download Presentation: Automation-TheGreatHope2.zip, AutomationBuilderforWinrunnerTraining2.zip


May 25, 2006

"Why Safety-critical Software needs more than Software Quality Assurance to Manage Safety Risk"

Jeff Joyce, President and Co-founder
Critical Systems Labs

Download Presentation: CriticalSystems_VanQ.pdf, Joyce.J_2.Final.pdf


Apr. 27, 2006

"Are IBM's New Test Tools Worth Considering?"

Brian Pidcock, Computer Science Technology Instructor
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)

Download Presentation: IBMTestTool.ppt


Mar. 30, 2006

"Test automation and metrics in multi-site development environment"

Roy Budhai, Software Testing Manager
Enterprise Reporting Group of Crystal Decisions

Download Presentation: Test Automation and Quality Metrics.zip


Feb. 23, 2006

"Building a test automation system incrementally using Mercury's tools"

John Smith, President
MAR Computer Systems


Jan. 26, 2006

"Software Quality Assurance with VSTS"

John Bristowe, Developer Evangelist
Microsoft Canada

Download Presentation: [Presentation Filename], http://www.vstsrocks.com, http://weblogs.asp.net/jsemeniuk/


Nov. 24, 2005

"Optimize Your Defect Lifecycle - Philosophy of Resolution"

Trevor Atkins, VP Operations
QA Labs

Download Presentation: QALabs-VANQ.zip


Nov. 3, 2005

"Lessons in Incremental Improvement of a Quality System for Developing Medical Image Management Systems"

Rob MacNeil, Manager of Quality and Regulatory Affairs
McKesson Medical Imaging Group

Download Presentation: Lessons_in_Incremental_Improvement_of_a Quality_System_for_MIMS.zip


Sep. 29, 2005

"Testing of Web Applications: HTTPUnit and JUnit - An Introduction to Open Source Tools"

Jay Marino, IT QA Engineer
CityXpress

Download Presentation: WebAppTestingHTTPUnit.zip


Jun. 23, 2005

"Implementing a prototype keyword library as a first step toward automated testing"

Veronika Smolik and Brian Pidcock
Active Community Solutions (Class Software) and BCIT

Download Presentation: ActiveAutomation.zip


May 26, 2005

"Come Play Project Manager"

Robert Goatham, IT Manager
VCS

Download Presentation: comeplay_project_manager.zip


Apr. 28, 2005

"Rocky Path To Test Automation"

Ken Creamore
Simply Accounting Group of ACCPAC International


Feb. 24, 2005

"Testing Web Services"

Ajay Sidda
CypressLogic Systems

Download Presentation: testingwebservices.zip


Jan. 27, 2005

"Establishing a Quality Culture in an Organization"

Lisa Toth
QA Labs

Download Presentation: sellingqatomanagement.ppt


Nov. 25, 2004

"Problems or Challenges? A look at our shared experiences"

Robert Goatham, and panelists

Download Presentation: 20041125VanQ.zip


Oct. 27, 2004

"Awards Presentation"

Dan Zrymiak

Download Presentation: VanQ_Awards_Presentation.zip


Sep. 30, 2004

"Quality Is Dead(?)"

Robert Goatham

Download Presentation: Quality_is_Dead_Summary.zip


Jun. 23, 2004

"Improving Software Quality with Six Sigma"

Dan Zrymiak
Neoteric Technology

Download Presentation: Six Sigma Presentation.zip


Mar. 31, 2004

"General Automated Test Result Checking with Log File Analysis"

Jamie Andrews, Associate Professor
University of Western Ontario

Download Presentation: General_Automated_Test_Log_Analysis.zip


Feb. 18, 2004

"Testing of UML Driven Systems"

Miroslav Novak, Systems Engineer
Borland Canada


Jan. 13, 2004

"Right Up Front: Strategies for Prioritizing Test Activities"

Jim Brosseau
Clarrus Consulting Group

Download Presentation: Test_Prioritization_Strategies.zip


Oct. 28, 2003

"Automated Build and Test with the .NET Framework"

Mark Allen, Director, Architech
Pangaea Systems

Download Presentation: Automated_Build_and_Test_with_DotNet.zip


Sep. 26, 2003

"Advanced Modeling, Model Based Test Generation and Abstract State Machine Language"

Keith Stobie, Test Architect
Microsoft

Download Presentation: Basics_Of_Modelling_ASML_Vancouver.zip


 

 
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