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Auto-Supplier Relations Improve for Big Three
ASQ Quality News Today22 May 2012 | 12:00 amFor years, auto suppliers large and small routinely ranked foreign automakersin particular, Japanese automakersas tops in terms of preferred customers for their parts and services. But a new study by Michigan-based Planning Perspectives that ranks the top six automakers in terms of their favored status by suppliers is showing some movement. Toyota and Honda maintained their first and second positions but received their lowest scores in 11 years. Ford fell slightly but maintained the third spot -
Survey on Black Belt Return on Investment – Get Free Results!
iSixSigma15 May 2012 | 11:55 amIn 2005 iSixSigma published its first original research on Black Belt return on investment. The project explored the return on investment companies achieve through Black Belt improvement projects. Seven years later, iSixSigma is revisiting this topic and I hope that you will participate today – https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FBCWQW7. Help us learn what’s changed and what’s stayed the same. The survey is only open through Wednesday, May 30! You will have the opportunity to receive FREE complete results at the end of the survey - https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FBCWQW7. -
Project Management Started Around Six Decades Back
Quality Assurance and Project Management6 May 2012 | 11:17 pmProject Management Started around 6 decades back when it was felt by top engineers, builders, designers and architects; the need of a systematic and structured approach to manager complex projects so as to stay focused and informed throughout the project about its progress and achievement of landmarks or milestones. The management tools designed during that period spread all across various streams like civil projects, defense projects, engineering and of similar kind. It was Henry Gantt during 1950s who is known to create some systematic approach to project management by means of concrete… -
PESTT
Software Quality Assurance Zone14 May 2012 | 10:12 amPESTT is an Eclipse plug-in for learning and designing unit tests for the Java language. Currently, PESTT supports unit tests based on the control flow graph (CFG) of methods. It generates the CFG based on the source code of the method, allows for bi ...
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ASQ Quality News Today
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Auto-Supplier Relations Improve for Big Three
22 May 2012 | 12:00 amFor years, auto suppliers large and small routinely ranked foreign automakersin particular, Japanese automakersas tops in terms of preferred customers for their parts and services. But a new study by Michigan-based Planning Perspectives that ranks the top six automakers in terms of their favored status by suppliers is showing some movement. Toyota and Honda maintained their first and second positions but received their lowest scores in 11 years. Ford fell slightly but maintained the third spot -
Feds Find State's NCLB Waiver Deficient
22 May 2012 | 12:00 amWisconsins proposal for holding schools accountable is short on details and lacks ambitious goals to improve student achievement, according to a federal review. As a result, the states request for flexibility under the federal No Child Left Behind law could be at risk of being denied, said Doug Harris, a UW-Madison associate professor of education and public policy who is following the school accountability reform process. In a letter dated April 17, the U.S. Education Department informed -
The Hidden Costs of Offshore Suppliers
22 May 2012 | 12:00 amRising wages abroad are a driving force behind a trend in which a third of large U.S. manufacturers are considering whether to return production to the United States, according to the Boston Consulting Group. That shift in thinking, though, is not solely the result of rising wages in China and other countries, but also of increasing awareness about the total cost of doing business offshore. For many companies that source from offshore locations, the initial appeal of -
China Orders Safety Checks of Capsules
22 May 2012 | 12:00 amChinas food and drug-safety watchdog confirmed Monday it has pressed local authorities to strictly implement a new requirement on the testing of gel capsules, vowing to hand down prompt and severe punishments for producers of unsafe pharmaceuticals. The State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) said in a statement on its website that reports by local authorities have shown that some pharmaceutical makers lack the knowledge or equipment to carry out in-house testing on pharmaceutical gelatin, -
DMAIC Helps DHL Track Improvements
22 May 2012 | 12:00 amDHL Supply Chain might make connecting far-flung areas of the planet its business, but it was only a few years ago that it started putting the same idea to work within the organization to improve productivity. Five years ago, the companys offices around the world started using the define, measure, analyze, improve and control (DMAIC) improvement processa data-centric method of tracking room for improvement and the degree of improvement later on. When we chose DMAIC, it was
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iSixSigma
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Survey on Black Belt Return on Investment – Get Free Results!
15 May 2012 | 11:55 amIn 2005 iSixSigma published its first original research on Black Belt return on investment. The project explored the return on investment companies achieve through Black Belt improvement projects. Seven years later, iSixSigma is revisiting this topic and I hope that you will participate today – https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FBCWQW7. Help us learn what’s changed and what’s stayed the same. The survey is only open through Wednesday, May 30! You will have the opportunity to receive FREE complete results at the end of the survey - https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FBCWQW7. -
Change Anything in Your Business or Personal Life [VIDEO] – With Ron McMillan
14 May 2012 | 2:01 amSelf-help books abound for those who are looking to improve themselves, either personally or professionally. What these books fail to address, however, is the personalization that most people need to make lasting change. Ron McMillan is one of the authors of the book Change Anything, which introduces a framework to help you achieve any of your goals by: becoming a scientist, studying yourself, identifying crucial moments where you fail, creating vital behaviors, and engaging in six sources of influence. In this video, you will learn: Why change is not easy and why you should not blame… -
Reporting Format for Hypothesis Testing
7 May 2012 | 2:01 amHypothesis testing is a powerful way to analyze data. But to make the most progress, a Six Sigma team must not only be able to perform a hypothesis test, it must also be aware of the test’s limits of practical significance. Two groups of stakeholders are involved with the results of statistical analysis. The team’s need for understanding is obvious, but the team’s customer also must be able to understand the results and their significance. By following a consistent reporting format, a Six Sigma team and its customers can better understand and explain hypothesis test results and… -
Research: 9th Annual iSixSigma Global Salary Survey Highlights
30 Apr 2012 | 2:01 amThe following are selected highlights of the 9th Annual iSixSigma Global Salary Survey. The complete report, with more analysis and extended findings (including results for Black Belts (BBs), Master Black Belts (MBBs), Deployment Leaders (DLs), Champions, Quality Professionals (QPs), Quality Executives (QEs) and Business Professionals (BPs); regional highlights; bonuses; how education and experience affect compensation; and much more), is available for purchase on the iSixSigma Marketplace. How the Survey Is Completed Data for the Annual iSixSigma Global Salary Survey is collected from the… -
Getting the Most out of a Capability Analysis
23 Apr 2012 | 2:01 amThe process capability indices Pp and Cp describe how closely a process can operate within its specification limits. Many articles describe the difference between Pp and Cp simply: one is short term, one is long term. Moving beyond such a description, this article focuses on the untapped power of capability analysis and shows you how to use Pp and Cp to your advantage. Overview of Pp Versus Cp The difference between Pp and Cp comes from the standard deviation that is used in the calculation. When calculating Pp, the overall standard deviation is used. This is the standard deviation of all…
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Quality Assurance and Project Management
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Project Management Started Around Six Decades Back
6 May 2012 | 11:17 pmProject Management Started around 6 decades back when it was felt by top engineers, builders, designers and architects; the need of a systematic and structured approach to manager complex projects so as to stay focused and informed throughout the project about its progress and achievement of landmarks or milestones. The management tools designed during that period spread all across various streams like civil projects, defense projects, engineering and of similar kind. It was Henry Gantt during 1950s who is known to create some systematic approach to project management by means of concrete… -
Project Management Is A Zero Balance Account
6 May 2012 | 1:20 pmWhat is takes in a project is to plan, organize, and manage - time and resources so as to optimize commercial part of the project. And managing it in some way or the other is known as Project Management. The way could be any legacy, orthodox, manual process to a modern, fully automated, state of the art, well proven and well established project management tool. Basically Project Management is nothing but to run the show in most disciplined manner. Resources, Planning, organization and management is all inclined to gain achievement and success in any project being part of. What you know in a… -
Project Management and PRINCE2
6 May 2012 | 3:11 amThere are many tools available in the global, local and glocal markets that boast about helping you in management of your projects. Some of them might be really good. But the point of fact is that not all good things in life fit in well to everyone. Depending on the culture in your organization, kind of people you have employed who are directly responsible for projects, and above all your intentions of staying wherever you are in competition and revenues aspects or climb up the ladder fast to reach to one of the top few positions and then sustain to stay there for long. PRINCE2 is one of the… -
Coding Is Not All About Coding - Three Tips
6 May 2012 | 1:56 amAs a developer you might be very good in coding having an expertise in writing bug-free code extensively long having thousands of lines and quite rigorous in nature. But what about the non-coding component that is required to be built in and around your coding. Have you ever wondered that not all excellent coders are very successful in life in long run. Top three tips to become a good coder that can make you an all rounder in all aspects and probably can act as a ladder to climb higher than you normally perceive during your career growth; are: 1. Act as a Catalyst to Business: Your value will… -
Five Things To Forget While Testing To Do Blunders
29 Apr 2012 | 1:58 pmFor a tester it is important to be having a different frame of mind in terms of looking at the product from a different angle something uniquely apart from how others look at it. Usually testers have a third eye probably either developed on their own or is god gifted. With this third eye they are able to see the product the way it is to be looked at by the customer or the end user. A Tester must forget certain things while testing a product if he is determined to produce or find out all of the ‘critical bugs’ hidden in the product so that it goes in a good shape to the customers.
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Software Quality Assurance Zone
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PESTT
14 May 2012 | 10:12 amPESTT is an Eclipse plug-in for learning and designing unit tests for the Java language. Currently, PESTT supports unit tests based on the control flow graph (CFG) of methods. It generates the CFG based on the source code of the method, allows for bi ... -
Automated Acceptance Tests Maintenance
10 May 2012 | 12:04 pmAutomated testing is a cornerstone of Continuous Delivery. Automated functional testing ensures that your software is working across your value stream and that your organization has fast feedback when its not. Maintaining automated acceptance tests, ... -
Four Principles of Low-Risk Software Releases
10 May 2012 | 11:59 amIs your style of delivery high-risk, 'big bang' deployment? Unless you're an adrenaline junkie, you're just risking spectacular failure with your company's money and your sanity. Jez Humble, coauthor of Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases ... -
CollabNet Automates Build, Test And DevOps In The Cloud With New Version Of CollabNet Lab Management
10 May 2012 | 2:35 amBRISBANE, Calif., May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- CollabNet®, a global leader for Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services, today announced the latest version of CollabNet Lab Management for automated provisioning o ... -
Javascript Unit Testing with QUnit and Sinon.js
9 May 2012 | 12:34 pmHow to get started with some simple unit tests using QUnit as the test framework and Sinon.js as a mocking framework.
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Project Management Articles - PM Hut
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4 Easy Questions About How to Prioritize
15 May 2012 | 1:51 pm4 Easy Questions About How to Prioritize By Preben Ormen Delivering projects is about making a lot of decision. To make good decisions, we need to know how to prioritize. Here are four easy questions to help making the right choices. It’s really all about classifications into Must Haves, Should Haves, Could Haves or Won’t Haves: Must Haves Must Haves [...] -
An Example of a Project Charter
15 May 2012 | 11:38 amAn Example of a Project Charter By Merrie Barron and Andrew R. Barron Introduction Overview of the Project Provide a simple but precise statement of the project. Example 1 Rice University is planning to create a store to sell computer supplies. Purpose of the Project Charter This Project Charter outlines the purpose, objectives, and scope of the project. The purpose of a Project [...] -
The Agile Project Manager - Fail Now as a Strategy
15 May 2012 | 8:44 amThe Agile Project Manager - Fail Now as a Strategy By Bob Galen I was at a conference not that long ago speaking and sharing on various agile topics. As often happens, a young man stopped me to ask a few questions after one of my presentations. We struck up a nice conversation that eventually slipped out [...] -
So What Is Value for Money?
14 May 2012 | 3:11 pmSo What Is Value for Money? By Michael L Young Value for money is the overarching procurement principle in almost all public sector agencies. It should be a consideration in every step of the procurement process: from the initial decision about which procurement method to use through to the selection of the preferred supplier and negotiation of [...] -
Post-Agile?
14 May 2012 | 10:55 amPost-Agile? By George Dinwiddie “Most people doing Agile today are actually doing Waterfall with Agile terms. Agile is dead.” There are a lot of people talking about “post-agile” now that the word Agile has been taken up by the masses, including those selling products and services with the word without ever doing what some might consider to be [...]
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New home for my blog
14 May 2012 | 9:30 amIn case any of you are wondering why I haven't been posting here, it's because my blog now lives at Peak Performance. I've tried to migrate all the content from here that I believe has historical significance to make things easy to find. I hope you'll continue following my work (and work-related rants) at my blog's new home. Scott Barber President & Chief Technologist, PerfTestPlus, Inc. Author, Web Load Testing for Dummies Co-Author, Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications Contributing Author,Beautiful Testing, & How To Reduce the Cost of Testing -
Candidate Statement for CMG Director
20 Sep 2011 | 11:16 amI've been nominated as a director candidate for the CMG. My candidate statement is posted below because my views related to CMG mirror my views for application performance in organizations and the industry as a whole and I believe that is (or, at least, I hope it is) interesting to anyone involved or concerned with challenges related to application performance now and in the future. If you are a CMG member, I encourage you to review all of the candidate statements and to vote your conscience here. -
Thoughts on Agile & Agile Testing
2 Sep 2011 | 9:23 amThis past weekend, I finally made time to start reading Agile Testing: A Practical Guide For Testers And Agile Teams, Lisa Crispin & Janet Gregory, Addison-Wesley (2009). I made it through the first two chapters before life called me away. After I put the book down and starting going about accomplishing a mundane series of errands, I realized that I was feeling disappointed and that the disappointment had started growing just a few pages into the book. Not because of what the book had to say, what it said was pretty good – not exactly how I would have expressed a few things, but… -
STP Online Summit: Achieving Business Value with Test Automation
23 Aug 2011 | 10:11 amDue to the overwhelming success and positive reviews of the last STP Online Summit: Business Value of Performance Testing, we've decided to do it again -- only this time, we're going to explore Achieving Business Value with Test Automation. Join me (while I continue practicing my radio host skills for my emergency back-up career as a sportscaster) and 7 other presenters that I consider to be elite practitioners, teachers, and thinkers in their test automation areas of specialization for 3 half days online to learn their tips and methods for achieving business value with test automation. If… -
Scott Barber Interviewed by Matt Heusser; Podcast
4 Aug 2011 | 9:50 amTwo part podcast on the STP site. I say some interesting stuff... or at least I say some stuff that's interesting to me. :) Twist #52 - With Scott Barber Twist #53 - The Return of the Barber Scott Barber President & Chief Technologist, PerfTestPlus, Inc. Co-Author, Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications Contributing Author, Beautiful Testing, & How To Reduce the Cost of Testing
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Data miners find there’s gold in them t
14 May 2012 | 3:28 pmData miners find there’s gold in them thar files http://ow.ly/aUbhF -
2 Things I learned from being a customer
3 May 2012 | 5:55 amDon’t get angry at your service provider Remember that a service provider is there to do something you cannot, or will not, do. I recently got angry at what I perceived to be an unfair action by a service provider. I thought that they did not communicate properly with me and could have called me to sort out the query they had. I called them and “let them have it”, perhaps not quite entirely professional of me. And guess what, 2 weeks later I had to use them again. So, swallow pride and fire off the email asking for help. Luckily they were professional enough to assist me with my… -
RT @infoslips: Just love green tech! Hel
23 Apr 2012 | 4:19 amRT @infoslips: Just love green tech! Helium-filled floating wind turbine, renewable energy with style http://t.co/ADYzaMeI -
RT @vaughndumas: 6 Things I learned from
22 Apr 2012 | 7:04 amRT @vaughndumas: 6 Things I learned from Microsoft’s vision of the future http://t.co/hCc8NPuh -
Targeted Selection for Programming Jobs
14 Apr 2012 | 6:10 amI recently went for an interview for a programming job. I had prepared all the necessary answers such as “Tell me about yourself” and “What have you done recently that was cool?”. I was looking forward to getting all technical with those that were to interview me. A few minutes into the interview I got the feeling that 2 of the 3 there were technical (the 3rd was a manager but I’m not sure if he was technical in a previous lifetime). Then came the questions: “What have you done recently that provided excellence customer service?”, or “How did you react in this…
