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The Southern California Quality Assurance Association (SCQAA) San Fernando Chapter presents

Introducing Lean Software Development

Frode L. Ødegård

Wednesday, August 4, 2004 Networking @ 5:45; Business @ 6:45; Program @ 7:00 PM

Countrywide, 2900 Madera, Simi Valley, CA 93065

Lean Product Development originated at Toyota, which designs new products up to four times faster than its competitors, while maintaining superior quality standards. In this lecture we will discuss how Lean Enterprise principles can be applied to software development. In contrast with traditional approaches to improve the software development process, Lean involves a radical reorganization of how work is performed. Lean companies move quickly to dramatically simplify and speed up processes, leverage architecture design choices, and link horizontal teams to overcome internal and external boundaries. You will learn how to:

· Achieve significant reductions in cost and cycle time

· Improve quality by reducing defect opportunities

· Help your teams focus on value and remove waste

· Work with suppliers and customers for mutual benefit

· Organize teams around "value streams" to overcome internal boundaries

· Integrate the design of architectures, processes, and teams

· Deliver functionality needed by your customer on a just-in-time basis

· Design cultural values and team rewards for successful Lean implementation

· Apply these ideas no matter how much/how little you are using outsourcing

About the Speaker

Frode L. Ødegård is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ødegård Labs, Inc. as well as the Lean Software Institute. He is a frequent public speaker on software engineering management. Frode's lecture topics have included defect prevention, optimizing software development for profitability, architecture, outsourcing practices, and the relationship between leadership, quality, and specifications. He is the author of a forthcoming book on lean software development.

Managing Quality: CMMI – Pre-Meeting Bootcamp! This informative half hour training session by Bill Hackenberg, 1st VP, Countrywide, is an added bonus based on real life experience. Come a half hour early at 6:15 to learn and enjoy!

Fee: $10 nonmembers; Free for members Questions? Contact scqaasf_newsletter@sbcglobal.net

Membership: $65/year standard (one year of meetings); $100/year (one year of meetings + training discount)

Message from your President: Judy Cheves

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!! The 5th Annual Vendor Showcase and Conference will be held at the Renaissance Hotel in Long Beach, CA on Saturday, September 25th. This is an event you will not want to miss.

This year’s conference will focus on “Aligning Technologies with Today’s Business Strategies”. Maryfran Johnson, Editor in Chief of Computerword topic is “Risky Business: I.T Leadership in a New Landscape.

This is a low cost event that will provide you with a choice of five speaker tracks, vendor showcase and job board.

See you there!

Judy

SCQAA-SF Meetings – Door Prizes

If you have stopped attending our meetings lately, you are missing out on some really GREAT door prizes. At our last meeting in July we gave away a Visioneer 7100 USB flatbed 48 bit color scanner with powerful document software. For the month of August we have another great prize!!! A Canon LiDE 30 USB flatbed 48 bit color scanner with powerful document software. Use it to scan those old pictures to e-mail to your friends & family, make copies of important documents, or scan items for faxing or e-mail. Use the included Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to convert documents/articles/text into documents that you can share electronically. Be sure to attend so you can have an opportunity to win this flexible, powerful, and convenient scanner!

Whether you come for our enlightening speaker, come for the announcements, come for the food, or come for a chance at the door prize, come to our next meeting and learn even more about software quality assurance!

QAI Certification: CSQA and CSTE

SCQAA-SF is hosting testing for QAI Certifications (CSQA and CSTE) on Saturday, September 18, 2004 at 2900 Madera Road in Simi Valley. For details and to register go to www.softwarecertifications.com. The application deadline in July 19, 2004.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR! Wednesday, September 1, 2004 Monthly Meeting in Countrywide, Simi Valley, CA Speaker: Kidra Shadroo, Topic: At What Stage is Testing Beneficial? Saturday, September 25, 2004 5th Annual Vendor Showcase and Conference to be sponsored by SCQAA and other Southern California organizations. Contact: WWW.SCQAA.ORG Wednesday, October 6, 2004 Monthly Meeting in Countrywide, Simi Valley, CA Speaker: TBD, Topic: TBD

Job Opportunity

Software Test Engineers needed by Medtronic MiniMed in Northridge. For more information, see our website WWW.SCQAA.US or contact Fawn Adams, Software Test Engineering Supervisor (818) 576-4993

Very Senior SQA analyst with hands on experience in end-to-end testing (O/S-Unix to GUI-ASP). Must have experience testing GUI, Microsoft code (VB/SQL), and Oracle and SQL back end. This is a web based application running on Unix with Oracle 8i/9i and VB/ASP front end. Candidates need to have experience with Rational, Dimension, and SQL Navigator (Quest). Must have a strong understanding of Unix scripting. Please note that this is not a straight QA/testing position. Candidates that only have experience testing development code or integration will not be considered a fit for this role. Must be able to test full ability of application, and document and identify errors, as the application runs through the O/S, databases, and processing. Contact: Danielle Robey, Sr. Account Manager, Delta Computer Consulting, Inc. Office: 310-541-9440 x106 Cell: 714-926-0010 Fax: 310-541-9430 drobey@deltacci.com Yahoo! IM- recruiterdani www.deltacci.com

QA Analyst position with responsibility for test planning and for tracking and reporting problems. Contact: Danielle Robey, Sr. Account Manager, Delta Computer Consulting, Inc. Office: 310-541-9440 x106 Cell: 714-926-0010 Fax: 310-541-9430 drobey@deltacci.com Yahoo! IM- recruiterdani www.deltacci.com

Quality Meetings Upcoming

July 23 8 AM – 1 PM Looking into the Healthcare IT Crystal Ball. Jeffrey C. Bauer, Ph. D. is a nationally recognized health futurist and medical economist with 30 years’ full-time experience in academic medicine and health industry consulting. Sponsored by HIMSS – SoCal. Location: Holiday Inn Long Beach Airport. Register: http://www.himss-socal.org/calendar/calendar.html

August 6, 2004 Extreme Programming by Paul Hodgetts. Continuation of the May 7, 2004 discussion. Sponsored by SPIN-Los Angeles. http://www.uces.csulb.edu/spin/2004meetings.htm

August 16 – 20, 2004 2004 Empirical Software Engineering International Week (ESEIW 2004) hosted by USC Center for Software Engineering. Three meetings: International Software Engineering Research Network (ISERN) Meeting (by invitation), International Advanced School of Empirical Software Engineering (IASESE 2004) (open to all), ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE 2004) (open to all). Location: Redondo Beach Crowne Plaza Hotel and Marina, CA, USA. Register: http://sunset.usc.edu/cse/pub/event/2004/ISESE/index.html

August 19 6 – 9 PM Chapter Dinner Meeting of PMI-Los Angeles. Location: Proud Bird Restaurant near LAX. Register: http://www.pmi-la.org/

August 21, 2004 9 AM – 4 PM UML: Overview for Project Managers. Dr Narayanaswami (“Swami”), Principal & CTO of Cs3 Inc. in Los Angeles. Sponsored by PMI Los Padres Chapter. Location: Clarion Hotel, Thousand Oaks. http://pmi-lospadres.org/index.phtml

August 26, 2004 6 – 9 PM Managing Change in Project Management by Doug Leigh, Ph.D., Assoc Director. Sponsored by PMI Los Padres Chapter. Location: Clarion Hotel, Thousand Oaks. http://pmi-lospadres.org/index.phtml

September 1, 2004 At What Stage is Testing Beneficial? Kidra Shadroo. Sponsored by SCQAA-SF at Countrywide in Simi Valley. See website: http://www.scqaa.us/

September 8, 2004 Peter Coffee’s Annual Technology Forecast (to be confirmed) hosted by AITP.

September 9, 2004 CMM Level 5 by Jim Cisneros. Sponsored by PMI-Los Angeles. Location: Proud Bird Restaurant near LAX. Reservations: http://www.pmi-la.org/

September 21, 2004 Just Enough Precision: How to Get Adequate Specs by David Gelperin. Sponsored by SCQAA-Orange County. See http://www.scqaa.com/meetings.htm

September 24, 2004 6 – 9 PM How to Deal with the Overachiever and the Underachiever on your Project by Debra Mandel, Ph.D.. Sponsored by PMI Los Padres Chapter. Location: Clarion Hotel, Thousand Oaks. http://pmi-lospadres.org/index.phtml

September 25, 2004 5th Annual Vendor Showcase and Conference to be sponsored by SCQAA and other Southern California organizations. Contact: WWW.SCQAA.ORG

October 28, 2004 6 – 9 PM Six Sigma: What is it? And why is Project Management so Important? By Joe DeSimone. Sponsored by PMI Los Padres Chapter. Location: Clarion Hotel, Thousand Oaks. http://pmi-lospadres.org/index.phtml

November 18, 2004 6 – 9 PM Predicting Project Disasters by Paul Glen. Sponsored by PMI Los Padres Chapter. Location: Clarion Hotel, Thousand Oaks. http://pmi-lospadres.org/index.phtml

January 27, 2005 6 – 9 PM Managing Offshore Projects by Leslie Swanson, President, eXalt Solutions. Sponsored by PMI Los Padres Chapter. Location: Clarion Hotel, Thousand Oaks. http://pmi-lospadres.org/index.phtml

Quality Industry Happenings

The newest security-related publication issued by ISACA’s affiliated IT Governance Institute, "COBIT Security Baseline", is now available for complimentary download by ISACA members. This ISACA document is useful in understanding the 39-step COBIT security baseline, as a comprehensive approach to better information security. "COBIT Security Baseline" is based on Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT), issued by the IT Governance Institute and now in its third edition. COBIT covers security in addition to other risks that can occur with the use of IT. A mapping to related control objectives in ISO 17799 is included as well. For further information: www.isaca.org

Our Corporate Meeting Sponsors

Serena, Corp. at 20920B Warner Center Lane, Woodland Hills, is our very first chapter Corporate Meeting Sponsor. We very much appreciate their sponsorship, which provides the SCQAA San Fernando Board with a fine workspace for our Board meetings.

Countrywide, Corp. in Simi Valley is our second chapter Corporate Meeting Sponsor, as they are providing Membership meeting space, starting with the first monthly meeting on September 17, 2003.

Our Corporate Sponsors

Kaiser Permanente, headquartered in Oakland, is sponsoring SCQAA-SF this year to enable its Southern California employees to take advantage of chapter meetings and instructor-led QAI training.

QAI Certification Programs

To request more information, send email to certify@qaiusa.com.

Earn CPEs

Are you a CQA or CSTE? Earn some of your Continuing Professional Education (CPE) points by attending SCQAA-SF meetings. Earn even more by helping with our committees!

Southern California Quality Assurance Association San Fernando Chapter (SCQAA-SF)

QAI Certification Programs

To request more information, send email to certify@qaiusa.com.

Meet Your SCQAA

San Fernando Chapter Board

The new Board slate is composed of:

Position	Board Member	Backup Member
Chapter Chair	Judy Cheves	Shahidul Manan
Vice Chair	Shahidul Manan
Treasurer	Deanna Witrack	Judy Cheves
Secretary	John Heeg	TBD
Chapter Advisor	Jim Stoumpos
Events/Promotion	TBD
Food Service Chair	Peter Reidy
Historian/Librarian	Lenni Lara
Mail List Chair	Gerry Caruso	Karina Gamble
Meeting Chair	Kidra Shidroo
Membership Chair	Ron Winters
Newsletter Chair	Elizabeth Runyon	Deanna Witrack
PMI Liaison	Bill Hackenberg
Program/Education Chair	Karina Gamble
Sponsor/PR Chair	Bob Tabaka	Bill Hackenberg
Web Team	Shahidul Mannan Kidra Shadroo Leonard Daly
Webmaster	TBD

Would you like to be a speaker and have a topic of interest to the quality community? Contact the Program Chair (karina@qainsight.com) or Chapter Chairperson (Judy.cheves@Countrywide.com) and let us know what you would like to contribute.

Would you like to contribute information to this Newsletter? Contact the Newsletter editor at this address: scqaasf_newsletter@sbcglobal.net.

The SCQAA San Fernando Board holds monthly Board Meetings at Serena Inc. in Woodland Hills. If you would like to attend the Board meeting and would like to help this chapter, please contact Judy Cheeves at E-Mail (Judy.cheves@Countrywide.com ) to obtain the meeting schedule and location.

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Directions to Our Meeting Location in Simi Valley:

You might want to check out driving directions from your starting point on yahoo.com, but here is how you will finish the trip:

Countrywide Financial 2900 Madera Road, Simi Valley, CA 93065 1C Central Lobby Presentation & Video Make your way to CA-118 and go to Simi Valley Exit CA-118 on Madera Road North Go 0.3 miles then turn right on North Madera Road Go 0.3 miles past Countrywide Way to first driveway on the right: 2900 North Madera Road. Follow the driveway up and around the building on your right and park on the other side (which is actually the front). Conference room 1C is right off the main lobby.