PNSQC 2017 - Conference Takeaways

It’s been a month since PNSQC, and it only now feels like we’ve leveled off from the peak we reached during the 2017 conference. With such great tips, advice, and inspiration shared by speakers, it was hard, to sum up, all we learned during the action-packed two main days!

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2017: A year of many firsts and much joy

At PNSQC’s annual meeting Nov. 8th, the board discussed committee successes and analyzed the data for areas of improvement over pizza, Caesar salad, and Pellegrino's.  

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Menlo Innovation's Rich Sheridan says his life has been enriched by the content and conversations of PNSQC 2017.

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Author and IT executive Thomas A. Paider visited Menlo Innovations, founded by Rich Sheridan, and returned to his job determined to implement Menlo's processes at his workplace. The result: a huge reduction in defects, higher productivity and employee engagement.

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We recently spoke with Katy Sherman to find out how she became passionate about testing, and what generally makes her tick. Sherman — who will be PNSQC 2017’s Tuesday morning Keynote Speaker — likes to test conventional ways of doing things to see if they truly have staying power. In addition to keynoting, the director of software engineering at Premier Inc., in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., will be the final guest speaker on September 28 in our 2017 conference webinar series. There is still time to register for the free webinar.

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Bhusan Gupta believes merely trying to penetrate a system “like a hacker” after the software is built is too little testing too late. Get a sneak peek of his PNSQC talk in the hour-long Sept. 7 webinar "Security Software Testers Must be One Step Ahead of the Hackers," with host Phil Lew.

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Rich Sheridan, Menlo teach software development process to Rail Delivery Services, General Electric. Executives from two different companies describe the transformation that occurred at their workplaces after they studied Menlo Innovations workplace practices.

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By Dan Cook

You can’t spend much time around Rich Sheridan without feeling the ground shake under you. He’s got his own ideas about how a business should be run and, frankly, some of his practices and theories fly in the face of the tech world… Read more

Katy Sherman, director of software engineering, Premier Inc., has created a virtual library on LinkedIn with her many articles addressing topics that relate to agile software development and the collaboration, or lack of it, between developers and testers during the agile process.

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