Course Summary
In this course, students learn best practices for finding and fixing defects on a software development project. Students review industry-standard defect containment methods, and how to use metrics to demonstrate comparative and cumulative effectiveness.
Duration
4 hours.
Audience
Project and program managers, business and IT managers, team leaders and product managers.
Additional Notes
Instructor
Gary Gack is the founder and President of Process-Fusion.net, a provider of Assessments, Strategy advice, Training, and Coaching relating to integration and deployment of software and IT industry best practices. Mr. Gack holds an MBA from the Wharton School and is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. In addition he is an ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE), a Certified Scrum Master, a Visiting Scientist with the Software Engineering Institute (2006) where he co-authored the "Measuring for Performance Driven Improvement 1" course for which he is an authorized instructor, and he holds the ITIL Foundation Certification. He has more than 40 years of diverse experience in the software and IT industry, including more than 20 years focused on process improvement.
Pricing Options
Quantity discounts are available for this course. This course can be bundled with other cPrime University modules to build a custom training solution for your organization.
Outline
- What is Defect Containment and why is it important
- The Business Case for Software Defect Containment
- Industry Benchmarks
- "Total Containment Effectiveness"
- Defect Removal Scenarios
- A Lean Six Sigma DMAIC Case Study
- Software Peer Reviews (Inspections)
- Combinatorial Test Method: Testing on a Tight Schedule
- The Business Case
- The Combinatorial Method: an Example
- Intersections with LSS DMAIC and CMMI
