Conference At-A-Glance at PNSQC

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Monday, October 13, 2008

Registration Open, 7:30 – 8:30 AM

Workshops, 8:30 AM-5:30 PM
W1. Agile Planning - The Product Development Game, Tamara Sulaiman & Hubert Smits
W2. SQL for Testers, Karen N. Johnson
W3. Collaboration using the Agile Testing Taxonomy, Janet Gregory
W4. Zeroing in on the Right Problem, Steve Smith

Conference Social Kickoff, 6:00-9:00 PM

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

7:30-8:00 AM		Registration and Exhibits open
8:00-8:15 am		Welcome and business announcements
8:15-9:45 am		Keynote address: The Art of Building Consensus, Sam Kaner
9:45-10:15 am		Break in Exhibit Hall
		COLLABORATION	COLLABORATION	TESTING	ASSORTMENT
10:15 - 11:00 AM		INVITED SPEAKER Expanding Trust and Collaboration with Earned Value Tracking Tamara Sulaiman	Actually, It IS All About You!, Jim Brosseau, [P-6]	Testing for the User Experience, Lanette Creamer, [P-24]	Quality Management of Outsourced Projects, Ying Ki Kwong, [P-46]
11:10 - 11:55 AM			The 2008 State of Requirements Management — Latest Trends, Challenges & Solutions, John Simpson, [P-22]	Software Testing as a Service (STaaS), Leo Van der Aalst, [P-8]	Building a Successful Multi-Site Team Using Chocolate, Doug Whitney, [P-17]
BOF LUNCH — Birds of a Feather with dessert in the Exhibit Hall
1:35-2:20 PM		Collaboration - Modern Techniques for Quality Initiatives, Jeff Fiebrich [P-25]	PANEL Collaboration - Learning from Other Industries, Panelists: Douglas Hoffman, Jon Marshall, & Dick Hamlet [M-1]	Is Your Testing Effective and Efficient?, Bhushan Gupta [P-9]	Distributed Agile: An Experience Report, Joy Shafer [P-37]
2:30-3:15 PM		Trust: The Key to Project Team Collaboration, Diana Larsen, [P-39]	Tails in the Boardroom: Canine Lessons for Business Teams, Shannon MacFarlane , [P-4]	Acceptance Testing: A Love Story in Two Acts, Jon Bach, [P-16]	Case Study: Fostering Meaningful Change with the Large Format Printer Division at HP, Jim Brosseau, [P-7]
BREAK
4-4:45 PM		INVITED SPEAKER Playing Nice in the Sandbox, Janet Gregory	Collaborative Quality: One Company’s Recipe for Software Success, Alan Ark, [P-12]	Building a Software Testing Strategy, Karen Johnson, [P-49]	Collaboration Among Software Components, Dick Hamlet, [P-14]
4:55-5:40 PM			INVITED SPEAKER Creating Quality at the Fuzzy Front End, Jon Marshall, Innovation Frameworks	Test Case Generation Design Pattern, Lian Yang, [P-50]	Selecting Software Estimating Techniques that Fit the Software Process, Kal Toth, [P-41]
5:45 - 6:45 PM *RECEPTION in the Exhibit Hall Complimentary hors d’oeuvres & beverages * All attendees invited**

7:00 -8:00 PM Presentation co-sponsored with the Rose City SPIN * Agile Planning Framework * Tamara Sulaiman

Wednesday October 15, 2008

7:30-8:00 AM	Registration open
8:00-9:30 am	Keynote Address: Quality Dynamics of Agile Software Development, Ron Jeffries & Chet Hendrickson
9:30 -10:00 am	Break with limited Exhibits & Poster Papers
	COLLABORATION	MANAGEMENT	TESTING	ASSORTMENT
10:00-10:45 AM	Collaborative Techniques for the Determination of a Best Alternative in a Software Quality Environment, James McCaffrey, [P-10]	INVITED SPEAKER It’s Not Just an Update: Using Status Reporting to Expand Collaboration, Mike Kelly	Non-Regression Test Automation, Douglas Hoffman, [P-19]	Outnumbered: Ensuring Quality with a Low Test-to-Dev Ratio, Brian Rogers, [P-29]
10:55 -11:40 AM	Quality Software Engineering: Collaboration Makes the Experience, Diana Dukart, [P-18]		Web UI Automation - A Browser Agnostic Framework for Web UI Testing, Manuel Merino [P-35]	What PNSQC Expects in a Paper, PNSQC Program Committee members discuss the paper review and submission process, [M-2]
11:50 - 1:05 PM	LUNCHEON PANEL: COLLABORATIVE QUALITY: DOES IT HELP?
1:20-2:05 PM	Collaborative Change, Debra Lavell, [P-26]	Getting and Keeping Talent: Women in Software Development, Sharon Buckmaster , [P-36]	The TAO of Software Defect Test Collaboration and Estimation James Eisenhauer, [p-11]	Virtual Lab Management: Best Practices and Common Pitfalls, Ian Knox, [P-27]
2:15-3:00 PM	Agile Retrospectives: Collaboration for Continuous Improvement, Diana Larsen, [P-40]	Storytelling Techniques: Reporting Product Status in a Meaningful Way, Karen Johnson, [P-48]	Dealing with the Most Influential Factors Cause Customer Dissatisfaction Duvan Luong	Vendor Presentation Web Application Security, Ravi Yerra, Arsin Corporation
BREAK
3:30 - 4:15 PM	Quick Collaboration Between Theorists - Analyze This!, Ian Savage, [P-44]	INVITED SPEAKER Selling Your Ideas to Management, Steve Smith	Ensuring Software Quality for Large Maintenance Releases, Jean Hartmann, [P-21]	Vendor Presentation Conducting a Job Search in Today’s Marketplace, Jeff Miller, EdgeLink
4:25 5:10 PM	IT Collaboration at Stanford University, Claudia Dencker, [P-20]		-	Lightning Round - What I Learned at this Conference, 1-minute talks in small groups, [M-3]
5:20-6:00 PM PLENARY & CLOSE Encore - Best Paper, (as voted by attendees) [M-4]

NOTE:Although every effort is made to keep presentations and speakers as represented, scheduled times and sessions are subject to change.

[Current as of 9/13/2008]