Schedule of Events for 2004

January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December

Call for Program Speakers:

If you would like to participate or know some who should participate as a speaker or panelist in our meetings,
please contact the TCQAA Program Committee for more information.

Thursday January 8,  2004

Successful Test Automation "Knowing your Expectations"

Timothy D. Nelson & Michael R. Waller

STAMP Technologies, LLC

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Track:

Automation

Location:

Clarion Hotel

Thursday February 12, 2004

Testing in an RUP Environment

Nandan Dasgupta

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Minnesota

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Track:

Rational Unified Process

Location:

Clarion Hotel

Thursday March 11, 2004

Get Going with Reviews and Inspections

Aniz Sabuwala and David L'Heureux

Ambient Consulting, LLC and Tail Wind Technologies Corp.

Level:

All

Track:

Static Testing / Document Reviews and Inspections

Location:

Four points Sheraton

Thursday April 08, 2004

Do Something to Something in Expectation of Something

Jamie Mitchell

Test & Automation Consulting LLC

Level:

Intermediate

Track:

Test Automation

Location:

Clarion Hotel

Thursday May 13, 2004

What's RIGHT with the CMMI

Pat O'Toole

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Level:

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Track:

CMM - Capability Maturity Model

Location:

Clarion Hotel

Thursday June 10, 2004

How Picky Do You Need To Be As A Tester?

Andy Tinkham

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Level:

Intermediate to Expert

Track:

new testing technology and approach

Location:

Clarion Hotel

July             Top of Page

Thursday July 08, 2004

No speaker - Board Meeting Only - all members welcome
Location:  TBD (probably Ridgedale Library)

August             Top of Page

Thursday August 12, 2004

No speaker - Board Meeting Only - all members welcome
Location:  TBD (probably Ridgedale Library)

Wednesday September 08, 2004 (Note this is a Wednesday and not Thursday)

Agile Testing

Bret Pettichord

consultant

Level:

Intermediate to Expert

Track:

Automation

Location:

Holiday Inn (I-35W) Bloomington

Thursday October 14, 2004

ITIL - Information Technologies Infrastructure Library, a model with focus on service delivery for IT

Glen Larson

ITIL Consultant

Level:

All

Track:

Methodology

Location:

Courtyard By Marriott, 2905 Centre Pointe Dr, Roseville,55113        (651) 746-8000

Thursday October 14, 2004

    PSQT North October 25-29, 2004

Members of TCQAA will receive a 10% discount on all conference sessions when they use promotional code “TCQAA” on their registration.   This discount ranges from $80 to $225 per person depending on the number of courses the individual registers for.

November             Top of Page

Thursday November 11, 2004

Software Process Improvement – Best Practices

Dick Hedger

Quality Software Technologies

Level:

All

Track:

Process Improvement

Location:

Courtyard By Marriott, 2905 Centre Pointe Dr, Roseville,55113        (651) 746-8000

Tuesday December 14, 2004

This is a special dinner event that is combined with the American Society for Quality (ASQ). There will be two speakers that evening along with dinner. One of the speaker is Ester Derby.

Anyone interested please RSVP to program@tcqaa.org. Dinner will be $10 per person and will need to be received by Friday, December 10th. Checks should be made out to "TCQAA" and  mailed to the following address:

TCQAA
P.O. Box 2799 Loop Station
Minneapolis, MN 55402-0799

The meeting will be Tuesday, December 14 instead of Thursday, December 9. It will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel at the corner of 494 and 100 (the old Holiday Inn that we were meeting at last year). Currently the plans are to start registration  from 5:00 to 5:30 with speakers and dinner starting around 5:30 to 6 pm. Details to be coming soon.

Iterative Incremental Development with Scrum

Ester Derby

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Level:

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Track:

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Location:

Crowne Plaza Hotel 5401 GREEN VALLEY DRIVE BLOOMINGTON, MN 55437