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Topic: Quality Assurance in Offshore Development Model
Speakers: Hank Rainwater and Noel A. Kierans
Abstract:
This is a case study of a real-world project in which Celtic Testing Experts (CTE) participated, presented in the following format:
- Project in Trouble: a brief description of the product being built.
- A Challenging Corporate Culture: a description of the organizational dynamics that governed the various teams working to accomplish project goals.
- An Aggressive Timeline: key project milestones and events.
- The Problems: the difficulties the team experienced in meeting corporate deliverables
- The Solutions: how the teams, and specifically the QA team and leader, contributed to the eventual success of the project.
- Lessons Learned: a brief description of the product being built.
The presentation will focus on methods for managing quality in a software development model where large portions of the product are developed off-shore. The relationships between on-shore and off-shore teams are highlighted along with the metric-driven testing methods used to manage these relationships.
Bios:
Hank Rainwater’s career spans over three decades in science, engineering, and software application development. Hank has served as a Research Scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology and at the executive IT level with several large corporations. Hank is the author of the popular book on IT management entitled Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers published by Apress and is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Celtic Testing Experts.
Noel A. Kierans is the founder and CEO/President of Celtic Testing Experts. Noel has been in the software arena since 1997. He has successfully executed and managed testing efforts on more than 150 projects. He has implemented new QA practices where none existed before and has extensive experience helping clients enhance and improve existing QA processes and procedures. Prior to his career in IT, Noel’s soccer career in Ireland led him to receive a scholarship to Georgia Southern University, where he earned a Bachelor’s in Business Administration in Information Systems.
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