Fred Pinkett Monday, May 9th Time: 12:15 - 1:15 Software Resilience – The Means to Secure our Future	Dr. Magdy Hanna Tuesday, May 10th Time: 12:15 - 1:15 Requirement-Based Project Management	Robin Goldsmith Wednesday, May 11th Time: 12:15 - 1:15 Quality is Key to Prospering from Bad Times	Frank Cohen Thursday, May 12th Time: 12:15 - 1:15 Ready Yourself for Cloud Testing: Cloud Computing Off

Fred Pinkett
Presentation: Software Resilience – The Means to Secure our Future
Time: 12:15 - 1:15

Concepts:

Software is core to virtually every aspect of life encompassing education, government, entertainment, defense, banking, insurance and healthcare.  In many cases software is classified as mission critical, for example that which runs ICU Medical equipment or Command & Control systems, and others are considered business critical such as streaming movies or banking transactions.  In all cases, if the software is compromised by an attack there are consequences, some of which are life or even civilization threatening.

Making resilient software is the only alternative to a safe, secure, digital future. Building applications using best practices in secure development results in strong applications resistant to the attacks known at the time of construction; however, we also need to know how to design for resilience and test for security and other fragility flaws that open software to attack and misuse. This presentation will discuss:

• common mistakes organizations make with respect to software security
• practical tips, techniques, and tools you can deploy to ensure more resilient software
• practices that can be leveraged to avoid making the same costly mistakes others have

The audience will see how insecure software has impacted several organizations via case study discussion and will be left with a checklist to apply at their own organization in this entertaining yet ultimately pragmatic presentation.

Biography:

Mr. Pinkett brings to Security Innovation extensive experience in the information security space.  Prior to joining Security Innovation, he was vice president of product management at Core Security Technologies, where he was responsible for the product strategy and roadmap.  He has also held senior positions at ExaGrid, Pedestal Software, Network Associates, RSA Security, and Banyan.  Mr. Pinkett will leverage his extensive security and product development background to ensure that Security Innovation's world-class eLearning and software security assurance products continue to address changing and complex business requirements.  Mr. Pinkett holds an MBA from Boston College and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Magdy Hanna
Presentation: Requirement-Based Project Management
Time: 12:15 - 1:15

Concepts:

The success of any project depends on how requirements are being managed, and how changes are being controlled through out the project. When things get hectic and the schedule slips, it becomes crucial to get back to the customer as soon as possible with some adjustments to functionality being delivered. In fact, it is even more crucial to avoid that schedule slippage in the first place. Most importantly, it is critical to any project manager or QA manager to provide accurate estimates for each feature to be delivered, with accurate time frame when it will be delivered. Agile projects also must have better control over increments to make sure specific functionality is delivered at the right time.

In this presentation, Dr. Magdy Hanna will share his new approach to Requirement-Based Project Management. RBPM provides a process that effectively manages projects through requirement management. RBPM is supported by Rommana™ , an integrated software lifecycle management methodology and tool, which supports the following project management activities:

• Allocating and managing project resources, roles, responsibilities and access rights.
• Creating and managing project tasks for both development and testing on the project level, as well as on the requirement level.
• Creating and maintaining action item lists for both development and testing effort.
• Managing risks throughout the project for both development and testing on the project level, as well as on the requirement level.
• Creating and maintaining project timeline for all project tasks for both development and testing.
• Creating and maintaining cost and time estimates for both development and testing tasks, either on the projects level or the requirement level.
• Managing product release and features included in each release.

Biography:

Dr. Hanna is a recognized educator, speaker and consultant in several areas of software engineering. His distinguished seminars on various topics have been highly rated by software professionals. His experience with software goes back to the mid 1970's, when he worked as a developer at the NCR Center and the American University in Cairo , Egypt . Over the last thirty-five years, Dr. Hanna has worked in all aspects and capacities of software projects and processes. He has trained over 50,000 professionals around the world over the last 20 years. His passion and enthusiasm for testing, process improvement, and software engineering are contagious.

Dr. Hanna is Founder, CEO, and Chairman of several organizations:

• International Institute for Software Testing (www.iist.org), leading educational and professional development organization that provides education-based certifications to software test and quality professionals around the world. Dr. Hanna serves as the Chairman of Advisory Board for the Certified Software Test Professional (CSTP) and the Certified Test Manager (CTM) credentials.
• International Institute for Software Process (www.spinstitute.org), leading professional development organization that provides education-based certifications to software process improvement professionals around the world. Dr. Hanna serves as the Chairman of Advisory Board for the International Software Process Improvement Certification (ISPIC).
• International Conference on Practical Software Quality and Testing, (www.PSQTconference.com).
• International Conference on Software Process Improvement, (www.icspi.com).
• Rommana™ Software (www.Rommanasoftware.com). In this role, he is the Chief Architect of an Integrated Software Lifecycle Management System.

Dr. Hanna also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Software Test Professionals, a publication of the International Institute for Software Testing, now the Bug Free Zone (www.iist.org/bugfreezone). As a professor of Software Engineering at the University of St. Thomas , he taught graduate courses on several software engineering topics with emphasis on practical software quality techniques. Dr. Hanna consults with companies to define and improve their software processes using disciplined software engineering approaches.

Dr. Hanna developed new approaches and methods in software engineering including the Scenario-Based Development and Testing (SBDT), Requirement-Based Project Management (RBPM), Software Quality Engineering Methodology (SQEngineer), the Unified Data Model (UDM), and the Data-Driven Object Model ( DOM ). Dr. Hanna and his instructors conduct hundreds of free online webinars each year.

Dr. Hanna holds a Ph.D. and a Masters Degree in Computer and Information Sciences form the University of Minnesota , also a Masters in Operations Research from Cairo University , and B. Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from Suez Canal University, Egypt.

Robin Goldsmith
Presentation: Quality is Key to Prospering from Bad Times
Time: 12:15 - 1:15

Concepts:

Those who find the opportunities in even the deepest recession not only are more likely to survive but actually can prosper.  For instance, studies have shown that organizations which strengthen their marketing in tough times emerge well ahead of competitors who react typically by cutting back.  Tight times highlight the fact that IT cannot afford to continue its traditional wasteful ways of paying to create, find, and fix so many defects.  Attend this timely webinar to learn how learning and applying practical proven software quality practices provide low-cost high-ROI payback both immediately and long-term. 

Biography:

Robin Goldsmith JD is internationally recognized as an authority on business engineering and software acquisition/development quality, testing, and productivity. He is a frequent speaker at leading conferences and formerly International Vice President of the Association for Systems Management. Robin is the author of the book:" Discovering REAL Business Requirements for Software Project Success".

Frank Cohen
Presentation: Ready Yourself for Cloud Testing: Cloud Computing Offs
Time: 12:15 - 1:15

Concepts:

The idea of Cloud Computing - where scalability is limitless and automatic, and users/groups are billed for their use as it happens - is marvelous. But, there is nothing quite like seeing and holding your server equipment and application data behind your firewall. New open source solutions for building and testing private Clouds emerges this year. In this presentation, Frank Cohen delivers an immediately useful checklist and actionable knowledge for any medium and large organization to make the move to the Cloud. Cohen shows how to adapt Business Service Management, Load Testing, and Application Service Monitoring to be proven techniques, tools, and methodologies to achieve secure and profitable IT operations in the Cloud. Cohen shows how open source Cloud Testing tools and processes reduce risks, increase security, and deliver service excellence.

• Everyone is talking about Cloud Computing, but are you ready to move your testing to the Cloud?
• What do you need to know about the risks and benefits of moving to Cloud Testing
• Find out how you can move to Cloud Testing successfully with real-world examples
  

Biography:

Frank Cohen, Founder of PushToTest, Author of FastSOA. Through his speaking, writing and consulting, Frank Cohen is the expert that information technology professionals and enterprises go to when they need to understand and solve problems in complex interoperating information systems, especially Modern Internet Applications (RIA, Ajax, Flex/Flash,) Service Oriented Architecture (SOA,) and Web services. Frank is Founder of PushToTest, the open-source test automation solutions business, and maintainer of the popular TestMaker open-source project. PushToTest customers include Ford, Sprint, Tribal DDB, Pepsi, and dozens of global enterprises. Frank is the author of several books, including FastSOA, the way to use native XML technology to build scalable service oriented architecture, and Java Testing and Design. For the past 25 years he has developed and marketed some of the software industry's most successful products, including Norton Utilities for the Macintosh, Stacker, and SoftWindows.