ASQ Section 1313 Boulder, CO Date: 12 Aug 2010
Boulder/Denver Area Quality related Meetings
by non-ASQ Boulder organizations and Companies
Meeting Summary:
Software Quality Association in Denver (SQuAD): 10 Aug 2010 Meetings
SQuAD 2011 Conference: 9, 10 Mar 2011
Agile Denver "Software": 23 Aug 2010 Meeting: Dean Leffingwell
Colorado Quality Executive Network: 20 Jul 2010 meeting
Meeting Details:
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**** Software Quality Association in Denver (SQuAD) ****
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Aug 2010 Meeting
Date: 10 Aug 2010 (Tuesday)
Topic: A Hands on Demonstration for Testing Security in Web Applications
Presenter: Aaron Weaver
Synopsis:
This presentation will include a check list for testing security in web
applications. A deliberately insecure application will be analyzed for
vulnerabilities using open source/free utilities. Identifying the
vulnerabilities is only half of the challenge. How do we determine
which vulnerabilities should be worked on first? We will discuss how to
rank the impact of each vulnerability using a classification scheme so
that the vulnerability list can be appropriately prioritized.
Biography:
Aaron Weaver currently works at Pearson eCollege as Application Security
Officer, and is responsible for penetration testing, intrusion
detection, and security reviews. Prior to Pearson eCollege, Aaron
worked at Sovereign Bank as Web Security Manager, and was responsible
for security testing in Online Banking, detecting phishing attacks, and
assisting in resolving online theft cases.
He is also the chapter lead for Open Web Application Security Project
(OWASP) in Philadelphia
Location: PPA Event Center, 2105 Decatur Street, Denver, Colorado 80211
Just North of Invesco Mile High Field.
Direction: Take I-25 to 23rd Ave. Exit #211.
Head West to Clay Street. Turn South (left) on Clay.
Turn West (right) on 21st Ave. to Decatur St.
PPA Event Center is on the corner of 21st Ave and Decatur St.
Parking: Free and just North of the Building (furthest from the stadium).
Time: 4:00pm Networking and Refreshments
4:30pm Presentation
5:30pm Question and Answers: QA Book Giveaway
6:30pm Meeting over
Sep 2010 Meeting
Date: 14 Sep 2010 (Tuesday)
Topic: TBA
Presenter: TBA
Synopsis:
Biography:
Location: PPA Event Center, 2105 Decatur Street, Denver, Colorado 80211
Just North of Invesco Mile High Field.
Direction: Take I-25 to 23rd Ave. Exit #211.
Head West to Clay Street. Turn South (left) on Clay.
Turn West (right) on 21st Ave. to Decatur St.
PPA Event Center is on the corner of 21st Ave and Decatur St.
Parking: Free and just North of the Building (furthest from the stadium).
Time: 4:00pm Networking and Refreshments
4:30pm Presentation
5:30pm Question and Answers: QA Book Giveaway
6:30pm Meeting over
SQuAD Conference 2011 Conference
Date: 9, 10 Mar 2010
Location: PPA Event Center, 2105 Decatur Street, Denver, Colorado 80211
Detail information at SQuAD 2011 Conference
Call for Papers and Tutorials
For more SQuAD information, see their web pages at: SQuAD
or contact Cathy Kiser at 303-619-9444
Upcoming meeting Dates and Topics:
Normally Second Tuesday of the Month (Sep to May)
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**** Agile Denver "Software" ****
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Aug 2010 Meeting
Date: 23 Aug 2010 (Monday)
Location: Tivoli Student Union building, room TIV 320C
Time: 6:00pm Networking, Refreshments, Open Space discussion
Time: 7:00pm Presentation
Topic: "Agile Software Requirements"
Presenter: Dean Leffingwell
Synopsis:
Agile development introduced the "user story" as the primary currency
for expressing application requirements within the agile enterprise.
The just-in-time application of the user story simplifies software
development and helps eliminate the prior waterfall-like practices of
overly burdensome and constraining requirements specifications.
However, as powerful as this concept is, the user story, by itself, does
not provide an adequate, nor sufficiently lean, construct for reasoning
about investment, system-level requirements and acceptance testing
across the larger enterprises project, program and portfolio levels. In
this tutorial, Dean Leffingwell will describe a comprehensive set of
requirements management practices that builds on the user story to
provide a quintessentially lean and agile subset for project teams,
and yet scales to the needs of the largest software enterprise.
This tutorial is derived from the book Agile Software Requirements: Lean
Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs and the Enterprise, which
will be published by Addison-Wesley in the fall of 2010.
Biography:
Dean Leffingwell is an entrepreneur, software executive, consultant and
author who provides agility coaching to large software enterprises.
Mr. Leffingwell founded or cofounded a number of companies including
RELA/Colorado Medtech, Requisite, Inc., now part of IBM’s Rational
Division, and consumer internet identity company ProQuo, Inc. Mr.
Leffingwell formerly served as chief methodologist to Rally Software
and as Vice President of Rational Software, now IBM’s Rational
Division, where his responsibilities included the Rational Unified
Process.
Mr. Leffingwell has been a student, coach and author of contemporary
software engineering and management practices throughout his career.
His most recent book is Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for
Large Enterprises. His next book, Agile Requirements: Lean Requirements
Practices for Teams, Programs and the Enterprise, will be published in
2010. He is also author of the texts Managing Software Requirements:
First and Second Editions, by Addison-Wesley, which have been
translated into five languages.
Location: Tivoli Student Union building
The Tivoli is located on the Auraria Campus,
across Speer from Downtown Denver.
Direction:
From South: Take I-25 North to Denver, take the Auraria Pkwy exit
north to Ninth Street, Turn right and park in the Tivoli Center
parking lot or 9th street parking lot
From North: Take I-25 South to Denver, take Speer Blvd exit to Denver
Turn right on Auraria Pkwy. Turn left on Ninth Street.
park in Tivoli Center parking lot or 9th street parking lot
Coming from I-25 north, the Speer exit is most convenient.
- Parking lots cost $6.00 Make sure you mention you are attending
a campus event otherwise they might assume you are there for a
Pepsi Center event.
Time: 8:30pm Question and Answers
Time: 9:00pm Meeting over
Sep 2010 Meeting
Date: 27 Sep 2010 (Monday)
Location: Tivoli Student Union building, room TIV 320C
Time: 6:00pm Networking, Refreshments, Open Space discussion
Time: 7:00pm Presentation
Topic: TBA
Presenter: Bob Hartman
Location: Tivoli Student Union building
The Tivoli is located on the Auraria Campus,
across Speer from Downtown Denver.
Time: 8:30pm Question and Answers
Time: 9:00pm Meeting over
For more Agile Denver "Software" information, see their web pages at: Agile Denver
or contact E-mail: Alex Viggio
Upcoming meeting Dates and Topics:
Normally fourth Monday of the Month at the
Tivoli on the Metro/Auraria campus in Downtown Denver
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**** Colorado Quality Executive Network ****
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Date: 20 Jul 2010 (Tue) 8:00am to Noon
Facilitator: Ron Sedlock, a well-known local quality professional
and a disciple of both Deming and Juran
Host: Bob Spradling, Manager, Quality Assurance
Location: MillerCoors Golden Brewery, Golden, CO
Synopsis:
- This network is for the top quality professional at companies to have
access to their peers, the top quality professional at other companies.
- Often the top quality professional at a company feels isolated
(It’s lonely at the top!).
- This network is to remedy that feeling.
- The first session on April 20th was well attended.
- The top quality executive from 16 Colorado organizations came together
and began sharing what works and what does not work in the pursuit of
quality.
- The wealth of information was amazing.
- If you missed the first session and would like to attend the July 20th
networking event, please contact Ron Sedlock.
- This meeting is by invitation only.
- Please pass this information to the top quality executive in your
organization
If you want to attend or have any questions,
contact Ron Sedlock, the quality Catalyst
Phone: 303-716-5873 or 303-587-9153
E-mail: Ron Sedlock
Web site: the quality catalyst
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