CQAA March 2014 Speaker Program: Quality Engineering: Driving Higher Quality throughout the SDLC

Jim Mondi will present Quality Engineering.  Quality Engineering represents how Quality Assurance and Testing professionals can incorporate new quality-driven approaches and frameworks, metrics, engagement, and governance into the SDLC.  Some examples of approaches include “ambiguity reviews”, quality circles, simulation tools, and early automation.   Organizations that are adopting Quality engineering are seeing their overall project success, as defined by on-time, on-budget, and meeting quality and business expectations, increase significantly.  Organizations also are able to better plan for specific efforts, better understand risks to quality and to ultimate success, and better communicate with the organization about perceptions of quality required or expected.  Finally, quality engineering enables business leaders and owners to engage with their key constituents differently – with the right information, expectations and metrics in place, key business leaders can better evaluate project risks and provide better governance.

Jim Mondi, with 25-years of management consulting experience in IT process and quality transformation, leads Cognizant’s Global Process and Quality Consulting practice, focused on high-end process and quality transformation value propositions for new and existing customers. Prior to joining Cognizant, Jim was Vice President of Quality at Transunion, responsible for quality at the enterprise level, driving the implementation of a $150 million IT transformation program. Earlier, Jim was a practice lead, senior executive at Bearing Point and Diamond Management Consultants, leading strategic process and quality initiatives at Fortune 500 companies. Jim holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois and a MBA from the University of Chicago.

Host and Location

Agenda

1:30-2:00 Sign-in & Networking
2:00-2:15 Announcements
2:15-4:00 Presentation (15 minute break at 3:00)

Registration

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND THIS PROGRAM.

PLEASE REGISTER BY Monday, March 17, 2014. If you have any questions, please contact CQAA Program Director at programs@cqaa.org.