Jan. 28, 2010

"Inter-cultural Issues in the Workplace"

Jim Brosseau, Principal
Clarrus Consulting Group

Nov. 26, 2009

"Applying Dynamic Content to Quality Courses"

Dan Zrymiak, CSSBB, CMQ/OE, CSQE, IT OpEx Lead
Accenture AUBPOS

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Oct. 29, 2009

"Test Automation: Building Your Business Case"

Trevor Atkins, Principal Consultant
Silverpath Technologies

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Sep. 24, 2009

"Formal Task Management Process Using Group Estimations Based On Time-Boxing"

Gihan B. Madawala, Test Lead
Modular Mining Systems

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Jun. 25, 2009

"Leading and Managing QA Testing Teams - A Panoramic View"

Jackson Lee, MBA, MASc, BASc
QA Testing and Project Management Consultant

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May 28, 2009

"The Benefits of Automation"

Justin Hollander, QA Developer/Analyst
Squirrel Systems of Canada

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Apr. 30, 2009

"The Essence of Performance and Load testing"

Gihan B. Madawala, Test Lead
Modular Mining Systems

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Mar. 29, 2009

"Ways to Deal With Stress in the Current Economic Volatility"

Dr. Yaya de Andrade, Registered psychologist with the B. C. College of Psychologists (#613), and a listee with the Canadian Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology (# 04667)

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Feb. 26, 2009

"Metrics - Thinking In N-Dimensions"

Trevor Atkins, Principal Consultant
Silverpath Technologies

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Jan. 29, 2009

"Making Health IT a Team Player"

Ken Wong, Senior Systems Analyst
McKesson Medical Imaging Group

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Nov. 27, 2008

"Beyond Agility – Are There Gaps In Our Thinking?"

Robert Goatham
Calleam Consulting

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Oct. 30, 2008

"Capturing Wild Requirements for Testing"

Trevor Atkins, Principal Consultant
Silverpath Technologies

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Sep. 25, 2008

"Maximize Your QA Team's Contribution to Successful Project Delivery"

Grace Shi, PMP, MBA, MEng

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Jun. 26, 2008

"Write Your Quality Story"

Dan Zrymiak, CSSBB, CMQ/OE, CSQE, IT OpEx Lead
Accenture AUBPOS

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May 29, 2008

"Increasing Test Effort Estimation Effectiveness"

Trevor Atkins, Principal Consultant
Silverpath Technologies

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Apr. 24, 2008

"Testing the Extreme"

Jay Marino
Eclipsys Corporation

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Apr. 24, 2008

"A Match Made in Heaven", "GO Recruitment"

Raymond To and Maryann Boychuk, Martyne Lacoste
GO RECRUITMENT, Ventyx

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Feb. 28, 2008

"The Value of Web Application Security Testing"

Rodrigo de Carvalho, Rational Technical Specialist
IBM Software Group

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Jan. 31, 2008

"Actually, It IS All About You!"

Jim Brosseau, Principal
Clarrus Consulting Group

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Nov. 29, 2007

"The Day You’ll Look Forward to Receiving/Conducting a Quality Audit"

Rob MacNeil, Manager Quality and Regulatory Affairs
McKesson Medical Imaging Group

Oct. 25, 2007

"QA the EA Way. It's in the game because we made sure it was!"

Mike Butler, Matt York, Kayla Kinnunen, Edwin Yiu, Tamara Sciamanna
Electronic Arts (EA)

Sep. 27, 2007

"Sharepoint 101"

Medhat Elmasry, Instructor
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)

Jun. 28, 2007

"Patterns in the Decision Engine"

Robert Goatham, Project Manager
IBM

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May 24, 2007

"Quality Attributes Primer"

Jim Brosseau, PMP, Principal
Clarrus Consulting Group

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Apr. 26, 2007

"Borland’s Strategy For Quality Management Lifecycle"

Erik Schultz, Senior Solutions Engineer
Borland

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Mar. 29, 2007

"Software Safety: An Oxymoron?"

Ken Wong, Senior System Analyst
McKesson Medical Imaging Group

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Feb. 22, 2007

"How Requirement Management Can Impact Product Quality"

Grace Shi, PMP, MBA, MEng

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Jan. 25, 2007

"SW Quality Assurance in CMMI"

Josip Pajk, BScEE

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Nov. 30, 2006

"Effective Software Testing - Tools And Strategies For Project Success"

Rodrigo de Carvalho, Rational Technical Sales Specialist
IBM Software Group

Nov. 16, 2006

"A Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas"

Linda Rising, Consultant

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Oct. 26, 2006

"Attacking Code Quality Issues"

D’Arcy Smith, Instructor
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)

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Sep. 28, 2006

"Quality Assurance across the Software Development Lifecycle"

Chris Strand, Subject Matter Expert
Compuware

Jun. 29, 2006

"Team Driven Automation Using Commercial And Locally Developed Tools"

Ken Creamore, Senior QA Manager
Simply Accounting Group of Sage Software (Canada)

Download Presentation: Automation-TheGreatHope2.zip, AutomationBuilderforWinrunnerTraining2.zip

May 25, 2006

"Why Safety-critical Software needs more than Software Quality Assurance to Manage Safety Risk"

Jeff Joyce, President and Co-founder
Critical Systems Labs

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Apr. 27, 2006

"Are IBM's New Test Tools Worth Considering?"

Brian Pidcock, Computer Science Technology Instructor
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)

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Mar. 30, 2006

"Test automation and metrics in multi-site development environment"

Roy Budhai, Software Testing Manager
Enterprise Reporting Group of Crystal Decisions

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Feb. 23, 2006

"Building a test automation system incrementally using Mercury's tools"

John Smith, President
MAR Computer Systems

Jan. 26, 2006

"Software Quality Assurance with VSTS"

John Bristowe, Developer Evangelist
Microsoft Canada

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Nov. 24, 2005

"Optimize Your Defect Lifecycle – Philosophy of Resolution"

Trevor Atkins, VP Operations
QA Labs

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Nov. 3, 2005

"Lessons in Incremental Improvement of a Quality System for Developing Medical Image Management Systems"

Rob MacNeil, Manager of Quality and Regulatory Affairs
McKesson Medical Imaging Group

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Sep. 29, 2005

"Testing of Web Applications: HTTPUnit and JUnit - An Introduction to Open Source Tools"

Jay Marino, IT QA Engineer
CityXpress

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Jun. 23, 2005

"Implementing a prototype keyword library as a first step toward automated testing"

Veronika Smolik and Brian Pidcock
Active Community Solutions (Class Software) and BCIT

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May 26, 2005

"Come Play Project Manager"

Robert Goatham, IT Manager
VCS

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Apr. 28, 2005

"Rocky Path To Test Automation"

Ken Creamore
Simply Accounting Group of ACCPAC International

Feb. 24, 2005

"Testing Web Services"

Ajay Sidda
CypressLogic Systems

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Jan. 27, 2005

"Establishing a Quality Culture in an Organization"

Lisa Toth
QA Labs

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Nov. 25, 2004

"Problems or Challenges? A look at our shared experiences"

Robert Goatham, and panelists

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Oct. 27, 2004

"Awards Presentation"

Dan Zrymiak

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Sep. 30, 2004

"Quality Is Dead(?)"

Robert Goatham

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Jun. 23, 2004

"Improving Software Quality with Six Sigma"

Dan Zrymiak
Neoteric Technology

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Mar. 31, 2004

"General Automated Test Result Checking with Log File Analysis"

Jamie Andrews, Associate Professor
University of Western Ontario

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Feb. 18, 2004

"Testing of UML Driven Systems"

Miroslav Novak, Systems Engineer
Borland Canada

Jan. 13, 2004

"Right Up Front: Strategies for Prioritizing Test Activities"

Jim Brosseau
Clarrus Consulting Group

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Oct. 28, 2003

"Automated Build and Test with the .NET Framework"

Mark Allen, Director, Architech
Pangaea Systems

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Sep. 26, 2003

"Advanced Modeling, Model Based Test Generation and Abstract State Machine Language"

Keith Stobie, Test Architect
Microsoft

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