Conference At-A-Glance

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

Testing for the User Experience,

Lanette Creamer

Quality Management of Outsourced Projects,

Ying Ki Kwong

11:10 – 11:55 AM

The 2008 State of Requirements Management – Latest Trends, Challenges & Solutions,

John Simpson

Software Testing as a Service (STaaS),

Leo Van der Aalst

Building a Successful Multi-Site Team Using Chocolate,

Doug Whitney

1:35-2:20 PM

Collaboration – Modern Techniques for Quality Initiatives,

Jeff Fiebrich

PANEL

Collaboration – Learning from Other Industries,

Panelists: Douglas Hoffman, Jon Marshall, & Dick Hamlet

Is Your Testing

Effective and Efficient?,

Bhushan Gupta

Distributed Agile:

An Experience Report,

Joy Shafer

2:30-3:15 PM

Trust: The Key to Project Team Collaboration,

Diana Larsen

Tails in the Boardroom: Canine Lessons for Business Teams,

Shannon MacFarlane

Acceptance Testing: A Love Story in Two Acts,

Jon Bach

Case Study: Fostering Meaningful Change with the Large Format

Printer Division at HP,

Jim Brosseau

4-4:45 PM

INVITED SPEAKER

Playing Nice in the Sandbox,

Janet Gregory

Collaborative Quality: One Company’s Recipe for Software Success,

Alan Ark

Building a Software Testing Strategy,

Karen Johnson

Collaboration Among Software Components,

Dick Hamlet

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

Selecting Software Estimating Techniques that Fit the Software Process,

Kal Toth

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

INVITED SPEAKER

It’s Not Just an Update:

Using Status Reporting to

Expand Collaboration,

Mike Kelly

Non-Regression Test Automation,

Douglas Hoffman

Outnumbered: Ensuring Quality with a Low Test-to-Dev Ratio,

Brian Rogers

10:55 -11:40 AM

Quality Software Engineering: Collaboration Makes the Experience,

Diana Dukart

Web UI Automation – A Browser Agnostic Framework for Web UI Testing,

Jagannathan Venkatesan

PNSQC Program Committee members discuss the paper review and submission process, [M-2]

11:50 – 1:05 PM

1:20-2:05 PM

Collaborative Change,

Debra Lavell

Getting and Keeping Talent: Women in Software Development,

Sharon Buckmaster

The TAO of Software Defect Test Collaboration and Estimation

James Eisenhauer

Virtual Lab Management: Best Practices and Common Pitfalls,

Ian Knox

2:15-3:00 PM

Agile Retrospectives: Collaboration for Continuous Improvement,

Diana Larsen

Storytelling Techniques:

Reporting Product Status in a Meaningful Way,

Karen Johnson

Dealing with the Most

Influential Factors

Cause Customer Dissatisfaction

Duvan Luong

Vendor Presentation

Web Application Security,

Ravi Yerra,

Arsin Corporation

3:30 – 4:15 PM

Quick Collaboration Between Theorists – Analyze This!,

Ian Savage

INVITED SPEAKER

Selling Your Ideas

to Management,

Steve Smith

Ensuring Software Quality for Large Maintenance Releases,

Jean Hartmann

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

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Lightning Round –
What I Learned at this Conference,

1-minute talks in small groups, [M-3]