ASQ 0511 - What's New

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Join ASQ 0511 on Linkedin!
- The Northern Virginia Section of the American Society for Quality (ASQ 0511) is excited to announce the addition of an ASQ 0511Group to the "Linkedin" network.
- What is Linkedin and how can it benefit you?
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- How can you join Linkedin and add ASQ 0511 to your profile?
  If you are a member of ASQ 0511, you are automatically eligible to join the Section's Linkedin group. Click here to join Linkedin, or if you are already a LinkedIn member and want to add the ASQ 0511 Group to your account.
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- What are the benefits of adding a group to my profile?
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- Do I have to join Linkedin, add the ASQ 0511 group to my profile, etc.?
  No, this is an optional service for ASQ 0511 members who wish to participate.
- We hope to "see" you in the ASQ 0511 group soon,
  The ASQ 0511 Communications Team

New or updated as of 9 March 2022

Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
Our section's March 2022 Meeting — Wednesday, 9 March 2022 – At this month's meeting, we will have a double-event: an overview of the Section's Draft Product and Service Catalog and the continuation of the Professional Night.
Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes — Draft February 2022
Measurement Matters — 6 Axes of Quality — You rely on the accuracy of your test systems and the decisions made from test data to produce quality products. A robust test strategy elevates your technology and business results.
KnowBe4's New Season 4 of Netflix.-Style Security Awareness Video Series – "The Inside Man" — This network-quality video training series entertains and educates with episodes that tie security awareness principles to key cybersecurity best practices.

New or updated as of 7 March 2022

Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
Our section's March 2022 Meeting — Wednesday, 9 March 2022 – At this month's meeting, we will have a double-event: an overview of the Section's Draft Product and Service Catalog and the continuation of the Professional Night.
Recent job postings — Senior QA Manager for a growing pharmaceutical company & Senior Director, Quality Management – $10,000 Referral Bonus
Adopting the EARS Notation to Improve Requirements Engineering — Check the quality and accuracy of your requirements by leveraging the power of natural language processing.
Risk Management Workshop (31K) — Live/Online — We work and live in uncertain times. Risk is the new lens for understanding and thriving in today's work world. All management now seems like risk management.
How value stream management has finally brought IT and business together: VSMcon 2022 — This event will not only teach you how to apply value stream management to your development processes to gain efficiencies, improve quality and cut costs
Looking to grow your leadership skills? — Last year, ASQ surveyed the quality community about how you would like to grow in your career. Overwhelmingly, you told us you want to focus on leadership skills.
ISO 9000 & Lean Six Sigma World Conference – March 28-31,2022 — The registration fee includes admission to technical sessions, access to all recording for up to a month after the conference, and a certificate of attendance for 1.6 CEUs/RUs for each conference.
March 2022 Member Gift Bundle — Implementing and Optimizing Your Quality Management System
Latest News From Your ASQ Quality Management Division! — The Winter Quality Management Forum is Here!
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification Workshop — March 29, 2022 - Virtual-Live — The workshop is organized by the Lean Six Sigma World Conference
The March 2022 issue of Quality Progress is now live! Each month, QP Live delivers the latest feature articles from Quality Progress right to your inbox.
Quality Assurance Assessment — Assess your contact center quality program's alignment with strategic objectives and industry best practices.
ASQ Raleigh Six Sigma Special Interest Group meeting -- March 29, 2022 — The speaker, Forrest W. Breyfogle III, is an ASQ Fellow and CEO of Smarter Solutions. His presentation title is "Using a Free App to Resolve Commonplace Control Chart, Process Capability, and KPI Reporting Issues."
Introduction to Deming Leadership Principles virtual workshop — Are you ready for a totally new way to lead?
Improve the quality of your data today — Wednesday Keynote: Data Quality Deniers & What We Learn From Them
Test automation best practices: A look back at 3 key learnings from 2021 — Achieving quality at speed: What successful teams do differently
Managing Trustworthiness & Dependability of Systems Acquired Via Supply Chain — webinar hosted by Consortium of IT Software Quality (CISQ)
Why testing is critical for delivering quality data, featuring Forrester guest speaker — How the increased complexity, volume, and journeys of enterprise data has introduced unique data quality challenges
Welcome To The 2022 ASQ World Conference On Quality & Improvement – May 15-18, 2022 — As the world’s leading annual quality event, the ASQ World Conference on Quality & Improvement (WCQI) brings together thousands of quality professionals from across industries for meaningful networking, technical education, and product discovery to help you pursue excellence through quality.
Automation resources that span the gamut of IT, development and culture — For many enterprises, the unsustainable pace of development required to capture new online customer experiences has resulted in sacrifices of process, quality, and resilience. As we pursue the next opportunity, be warned: automate or else.
Register Today for the 33rd Quest for Excellence Conference — Sunday, April 3 – Wednesday, April 6, at the Gaylord National Harbor Resort and Convention Center, just outside of Washington, D.C. The Baldrige Program is excited to be back in person for the premier learning event for Baldrige Award recipient best practices.
WDGIQ is coming in June. Save the Date. — They are in the process of finalizing the agenda for the upcoming Data Quality & Information Quality Conference taking place in San Diego on June 6-10.
.NET Framework Security and Quality update — several reliability and quality improvement have been made
Observability Needs for Application Modernization — Benchmarking for application quality control
The Path to Improved Patient Experience at Novant Health — Join this webinar to learn how one healthcare organization is using Informatica Customer 360 and Data Quality to achieve a deeper understanding of who patients are and what they need.

New or updated as of 8 February 2022

Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
Our section's February 2022 Meeting — Wednesday, 9 February 2022 – An Anatomy of a Ranger Outing: Mount Vernon and Team Effort, Conducted by Connie Broadie
Use quality metrics to help control costs, optimize resource utilization, and automate manufacturing workflows. — The future of manufacturing is a digitally connected ecosystem. Learn how to enhance your existing shop floor equipment with sensors and monitoring devices to gather performance and quality metrics that will help control costs, optimize resource utilization, and automate manufacturing workflows.
Build your skillset and future-proof your career — Enterprise Data World, 20-25 March 2022, is six days of seminars, tutorials, workshops, and case studies, covering topics that include Data Governance, Data Architecture, Metadata Management, Data Quality, Business Analytics, Enterprise Information Management, and much more. You'll have the opportunity to learn from industry leaders and come home with tangible skills to put into practice.
Ensure your operation delivers the highest quality customer experiences — Make this the year you validate your exceptional team and optimize your operations. Get your organization ICMI Site Certified - the ultimate recognition of contact center excellence. Adopting these practices and becoming certified proves that your operation delivers the highest quality customer experiences, while enabling better efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
Consider Data Quality, in terms of the accuracy of data being input into fields in a database, but the accuracy of the data itself — Accurate data isn't enough – it needs to be actionable. As the COVID-19 pandemic has shut down offices, people have taken to working remotely, and many have even moved from locations where the cost of living is high to places where it's more manageable. This raises the issue of data quality, not only in terms of the accuracy of data being input into fields in a database, but the accuracy of the data itself. Direct marketing organizations, for example, are working with data that could now be out of date. "Data needs to be accurate, to real-life information," said Greg Brown, head of marketing at data quality company Melissa. "That's where the migratory nature of humans comes into play. They're moving jobs, or they're working from home, or they and their families are moving, changing addresses and phone numbers. So the data needs to be meaningful — not only accurate, but actionable."
Code Quality Management Best Practices — Stories of software failures are continually in the news, and each of those failures are due to some kind of software defect being missed throughout the production process. These high profile failures can impact consumer safety and security as well as significantly damage the reputation of brands.
Start the new year off right! — ASQ 2022 conferences will help you fulfill your goals—whether it's developing soft skills, getting continuing education credits, or networking to your next opportunity! ASQ members always receive a conference discount!.
Improve quality and cut costs — {virtual} VSMcon 2022 is a digital conference examining the benefits of creating and managing value streams in your development organization. At this event we will discuss how VSM has finally brought business and IT together in a common language -- something businesses have struggled with for more than 20 years. At {virtual} VSMcon, not only will you learn how to apply value stream management to your development processes to gain efficiencies, improve quality and cut costs - you'll also learn about new solutions, strategies, and trends that are shaping business and culture decisions within organizations worldwide.
Benchmarking for application quality control — Observability needs for application modernization: Application modernization paints a more complicated picture than the developer advocates on social media would have you believe. Many container-based microservice applications were built from legacy environments, and there's a lot of migration to come over the next few years. On-premise baremetal servers and monolithic applications are the starting point, and Cloud-Native Applications are the endpoint, but each organization plans its own route based on where it is now, its needs, and what is achievable. This guide reviews: How to begin the modernization journey, Key benefits of modernizing applications, The role of observability in application modernization, and Benchmarking for application quality control
Code Quality Management Best Practices — Stories of software failures are continually in the news, and each of those failures are due to some kind of software defect being missed throughout the production process. These high profile failures can impact consumer safety and security as well as significantly damage the reputation of brands. "Why do we need to use a coding standard? Well, compliance with industry standards for example. But another reason for using a coding standard is simply to ensure consistent code. So everyone is writing to the same consistent code quality no matter who on the team is actually writing the code," says speaker Richard Volaris. This webinar covers the challenge of software quality, and looks at some pragmatic steps we can take to improve code quality.
Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes — Final December 2021 and draft January 2022
Latest News From Your ASQ Quality Management Division! — Check Out the Quality Management Division Learning Series and Upcoming Webinars You Don't Want to Miss!
Your Data Quality Assessment — "The world's most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data," says The Economist. It is the crux of a successful business, and "in a digitally powered economy like ours, only those with the right form of data can successfully navigate the market, make future predictions, and adjust their business to fit market trends," said techjury. Data integrity issues make managing critical information extremely challenging. Not knowing what data in the expanding collection of information is correct erodes an organization's confidence in using the data and therefore can be used to make poor business decisions.
Create an integrated bug workflow compliant with industry‑best QA practices — Soumen Deb is a Quality Engineering and Assurance Specialist at Cognizant Technology Solutions. Soumen is the January Jira Hero because he created an integrated bug workflow that was compliant with industry‑best QA practices and had a clear, distinct view of bug statuses across each phase of tests.
How continuous automation is the path to customer experience success — For many enterprises, the unsustainable pace of development required to capture new online customer experiences has resulted in sacrifices of process, quality, and resilience. As we pursue the next opportunity, be warned: automate or else.
The February 2022 issue of Quality Progress is now live! Each month, QP Live delivers the latest feature articles from Quality Progress right to your inbox.
ASQ'S 2022 Leadership Conference! — Last year, ASQ surveyed our members and event attendees about what you'd like us to focus on when creating new event experiences. Overwhelmingly, you told us that focusing on leadership soft skills was important to you. With that in mind, we're thrilled to announce our new 2022 ASQ Leadership Conference! We hope you'll join us on March 31 to discover how to influence, impact, and inspire at your organization every day! This one-day virtual conference is meant to develop leadership skills at any career stage and will deliver: Insight on individual value at any level of an organization, Keys to lead with acceptance and adoption, Methods of inclusivity and consideration to expand your scope of thinking, and Techniques to adapt to change—anticipated or not
2022 Geographic Community Funds Allocations — The past two years presented unique challenges globally. The ASQ Board of Directors continues to focus on positioning ASQ for success, including supporting member units and the value delivered through Sections. With the return to in-person event capabilities, the GCC is pleased to share that quarterly funding allocations will be re-established in 2022.
Benchmarking for application quality control — Observability needs for application modernization: Application modernization paints a more complicated picture than the developer advocates on social media would have you believe. Many container-based microservice applications were built from legacy environments, and there's a lot of migration to come over the next few years. On-premise baremetal servers and monolithic applications are the starting point, and Cloud-Native Applications are the endpoint, but each organization plans its own route based on where it is now, its needs, and what is achievable.
February 2022 Member Gift Bundle — Supply Chain Quality Management Primer!
Hiring Kit: Quality Assurance Engineer — Quality Assurance Engineers apply their technical expertise and skills to oversee the entire software development lifecycle and to verify the quality of the product and the overall user experience against a checklist specified by the client. Finding and hiring individuals with the right technical expertise, system experience, and ability to apply that expertise to software development and testing will require thorough recruiting and candidate vetting. This Hiring Kit: Quality Assurance Engineer, from TechRepublic Premium, provides an adjustable framework your business can use to find, recruit, and ultimately hire the right person for the job.
Putting more pressure on design engineering teams to further improve quality while being more efficient, cost-effective and timely. — Remove Silos, Rethink Designs on One Platform: Over the last few decades, products overall have greatly advanced in terms of quality. While this is a positive trend, it puts more pressure on design engineering teams to further improve quality while being more efficient, cost-effective and timely. Addressing these challenges will not happen by incrementally improving design tools; focus now needs to be on governance and collaboration, on teams working together in parallel rather than sequentially..
Independent Software Quality Assurance and Testing — All federal agencies rely on mission-critical information technology (IT) systems yet face long-standing challenges in meeting modernization requirements (M-18-12) and Cyber Security (EO14028). Technology can transform the federal government, but it must work for all and federal customers expect a quality product. A high-quality QA framework will assure the reliability and quality of the software are maintained throughout the lifespan and allow you to hold vendors accountable and protect agency reputation.
Supporting Your System's Safety Life Cycle — Discover how to create safer, more reliable system designs faster with the right products, engineering, expertise, and design resources. Explore the Functional Safety Resource Center and check out some of the most robust Functional Safety-Compliant and Functional Safety Quality-Managed products With easy-to-use part selection tools, TI enables you to quickly explore their dedicated portfolio of products for functional safety systems offering critical documents and based on rigorous R&D processes.
The latest version of Siemens quality management software—Teamcenter Quality 6.0—has been released. — Teamcenter Quality software version 6.0 includes enhancements to the following modules: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Control and Inspection Planning, Quality Project Management, Problem Solving, Quality Issue Management and Quality Action Management. The combination of modules allows users to close the loop on quality processes in Teamcenter, part of the Xcelerator portfolio, the comprehensive, integrated portfolio of software and services from Siemens Digital Industries Software.
Why testing is critical to delivering high-quality analytical and operational data — Join Tricentis and distinguished guest speaker Michele Goetz, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester, to learn why automated testing should be a key element of your data quality strategy. You will learn how the increased complexity, volume, and journeys of enterprise data has introduced unique data quality challenges, why it's critical to increase both data testing speed and coverage, and how an automated approach across data journeys can help you overcome these challenges.
Treasurer's Report for January 2022

New or updated as of 11 January 2022

Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
Our section's January 2022 Meeting — Wednesday, 12 January 2022 – Professional Night: Path to Quality, Part 2 conducted by Quality Professionals of ASQ Section 0511
Meet our Section's Leadership Committee Members — for 2022
Draft Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes — December 2021
Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes — November 2021
Introducing Monograph 4 of The Improving Healthcare Monograph Series — Implementing the Healthcare Quality Management System (QMS) is a case study anthology for organizations to use when developing and implementing their first comprehensive QMS sponsored by the ASQ Quality Management and Healthcare Divisions, Healthcare Quality and Improvement Committee.
Free On-Demand Webcast: The Journey to Next Generation Proactive & Prescriptive Quality — Organizations are in different phases of their digital transformation journey. There are different challenges to assuring quality including software, devices, and system interactions. The key objective is to achieve transformation while maintaining product/solution quality and integration of connected systems, while also delivering a positive user experience.
New eBook: Advanced Quality Management for Dummies — Your customers demand high quality, and this book is your key to unlocking the power of advanced quality management. In Advanced QMS For Dummies, find out why quality matters and how you can harness its power to address changing business needs and stay ahead of the competition.
ASQ is excited to share exciting news on behalf of ASQExcellence — the launch of the 2021 ASQE Insights on Excellence Executive Brief
Testing in DevOps — Testing in DevOps is as much about the people that are behind the tools as it is about the tools themselves. When they work in synchrony, organizations can see major benefits in the quality of their applications and software development life cycle processes.
Code Quality Management Best Practices — "Why do we need to use a coding standard? Well, compliance with industry standards for example. But another reason for using a coding standard is simply to ensure consistent code. So everyone is writing to the same consistent code quality no matter who on the team is actually writing the code," says speaker Richard Volaris. This webinar covers the challenge of software quality, and looks at some pragmatic steps you can take to improve code quality.
WCQI 2022 Member Leader Event Information: Now Available! — We look forward to welcoming you back to ASQ's World Conference on Quality & Improvement (WCQI). This year we are gathering in Anaheim, California for three days of networking, learning, and advancing quality practices.
The January 2022 issue of Quality Progress is now live! Each month, QP Live delivers the latest feature articles from Quality Progress right to your inbox.
January 2022 Member Gift Bundle — Knowledge and Skills for Career Success in 2022
Optimizing Your QA Process by Integrating TestRail and Jama Connect — As the digital demands of the business continue to escalate, software delivery teams are under extraordinary pressure to deliver more work faster. Join Jama Software and Tasktop on Thursday, January 20 at 5:00 p.m. CET / 08:00 a.m. PT, for our webinar.
You're Invited! Register for TCC and GCC Member Leader Onboarding Sessions — The Geographic Communities Council (GCC) and the Technical Communities Council (TCC) invite you to join their respective Member Leader Onboarding and Training sessions scheduled next week.
ISO 9000 WORLD CONFERENCE - The Great Resignation and How to React - Job Market and Work-Life Balance — This is the 30th anniversary of this conference, and this year's program will no doubt help you build on your success in implementing best practices for your organization!
Lean Six Sigma NASA Style - Keynote Speaker Amanda Mitskevich, NASA Kennedy Space Center — You may now register for the Lean Six Sigma World Conference
Managing Product Development Complexities Across Hardware and Software Teams — Jama Connect can reduce product development risk, provide end-to-end traceability, and improve product quality.
Delivering testing as a service in cloud-based development and delivery environments — As businesses move to cloud-native software development, test automation engineers and managers – and really anyone in the realm of software quality – must evaluate the advantages of cloud-based testing.

ASQ 0511 - What's New

ASQ 0511 - What's New

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