ASQ 0511 - What's New

Welcome to our New Members!

New section members receive a free dinner as a thank-you for joining the section.
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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?
  Linkedin is a free online network of more than 11 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries. Through your network you can:
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  - Get introduced to other professionals through the people you know
  - Find potential clients, service providers, subject experts, and recommended partners
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  - Discover inside connections that can help you land jobs and close deals
  - Post or search job listings
  - Find high-quality candidates
- 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?
  By adding the ASQ 0511 Group to your profile, you can:
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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 November 2022

Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! — Make it your home page on MyASQ
Wednesday, 9 November 2022! — 2022 Ranger Outings: A Year in Review Conducted by Connie Broadie, ASQ Section 0511 Historian, Chair for Voice of the Customer, Secretary
Top data quality tools of 2022 — For analyzing and managing data quality, here are the top tools of 2022. Find the right tool for your business.
Microsoft Data Quality Services (DQS) review — Microsoft Data Quality Services (DQS) enables you to automatically clean and standardize your organization's data to improve business intelligence (BI) performance. Learn more about DQS now.
Benefits of working with open source data quality solutions — From verifying the quality of incoming data to improving the quality of existing data, open-source data quality solutions can benefit your organization.
What does a data quality manager do? — Explore the requirements of the data quality manager role, and examine the skills necessary to succeed as one.
Joint TCC and GCC Lunch and Learn: Division and Section Conference Planning — Join the TCC and GCC leadership for a Joint Lunch and Learn session on Planning or Unplanning a division or section conference and knowing when it's time to pull the plug.
SAS vs Talend: Data quality solutions comparison — Compare the data quality solutions of SAS and Talend to find the best fit for your organization now.
Helpful strategies for improving data quality in data lakes — Ingesting large volumes of disparate data can yield a rich source of information — but it's also a recipe for data chaos. Use these tips to improve data quality as your data lake grows.
Instilling QA in AI Model Development — In the 1990's, when software started to become ubiquitous in the business world, quality was still a big issue. It was common for new software and upgrades to be buggy and unreliable, and rollouts were difficult.
It's Time to Elevate Testing — Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD are supposed to make software teams more responsive to users. But unless quality is elevated during these transformations, any progress will be undercut by bugs slipping into production.
November is World Quality Month — SQ and ASQE appreciate everything that you do and want to acknowledge you, your peers, and the whole quality community during November with World Quality Month (WQM).
Data quality trends to watch — What is the biggest data quality challenge for your organization today? Here are the top data quality trends and solutions for 2023
Advances in the Assessment of Software Quality & The Cost of Bad Software — CISQ will be holding a workshop in Austin at the Hyatt Regency on December 8th from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm to present the latest international standards for measuring the structural quality of software and the cost of poor-quality software.
The November issue of Quality Progress is now live! — This issue's theme: World Quality Month
Miss out on the 2022 Quality 4.0 Summit? — Capture the energy and knowledge of the event—recordings are now on sale!
Informatica vs Data Ladder: Data quality solutions comparison — Informatica MDM and Data Ladder are both data quality solutions. Discover which tool best fits your organization's needs for data quality by reading this comparison.
November Member Gift Bundle — Digital Transformation & Optimization: Disruptive technologies, increasing complexity, and supply chain issues are just a few of the obstacles quality professionals face when trying to upgrade and modernize their quality systems.
Six Ways Tool Integration Dramatically Improves Test Management Processes and QA — improving QA functionality by optimizing the flow in value streams ensures that communication never stops flowing. Embracing tool integration leads to dramatic improvements in an organization's QA and test management function.
Does meeting all day mean that you're actually collaborating? — What does collaboration design and quality of meeting experience have to do with mission? And why don't HR, IT, Data, and Operations compare notes more often?
Data quality in healthcare: Current problems and possible solutions — A detailed introduction to data quality and the current status it has in healthcare.
Explore the Benefits of Advanced Quality Management Systems (QMS) — Your customers demand high quality, and this ebook 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.
5 tips to improve data quality for unstructured data — Allowing quality data in can lead to a better understanding of an organization. Here are 5 steps to improve your organization's data quality for unstructured data.
Benchmarking for application quality control — A journey to modernizing applications: 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.
Women in Quality Symposium: December 8, 2022 | Virtual — The Women in Quality Symposium reconvenes with a focus on the quality mission toward sustained excellence and diversity that brings innovation to organizations, families, and communities. No matter what stage you're at in your quality career, you won't want to miss this inspirational day of virtual networking, skill refinement, and empowerment.
Lean and Six Sigma Conference: February 26 - February 28, 2023 Phoenix, AZ | In Person — Learn how to apply lean and Six Sigma tools to solve current and emerging challenges including a changing organizational culture, supply chain instability, environmental issues, data integration, and technology adoption to drive beyond process-level improvements. Register TODAY to enjoy the early bird rate!
World Conference on Quality & Improvement; May 7 - May 10, 2023 Philadelphia, PA | In Person — At WCQI 2023, you'll learn how quality processes and methodologies bolster organizations' response to risks like supply chain, economic pressures, and global volatility, and help spark a culture of excellence. Registration opens in December!
Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes — Final minutes from from September 2022, draft for October
Treasurer's Report for October 2022

New or updated as of 12 October 2022

Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! — Make it your home page on MyASQ
Registration Deadline for Our section's October Meeting is 4:30 PM, Thursday, 13 October 2022! — 15 October 2022 — George Washington Masonic National Memorial: Ranger Outing Event
Help the section do a dry run of our streaming capabilities — Jeff, our Emedia chair, has created a doodle poll for the latter part of October and Early November for those interested. Be sure to contact Jeff by responding to this email if interested so we can contact you after you've indicted your choices
An introduction to data quality management frameworks — Data quality management is important for enterprise data accuracy and integrity. These frameworks can help you identify and fix problems before they impact your business.
Data quality management: Roles & responsibilities — DQM is becoming a core capability for organizations that need to make better decisions with data. What are the responsibilities of different roles in DQM?
Transform Your Quality Program by Working Smarter, Not Harder — Attendance to the Workforce Optimization Virtual Conference is free! Brought to you by CrmXchange, SWPP, and QATC, Oct. 31 - Nov. 10, 2022
2022 DevOps Tools Solution Guide — DevOps is a continual evolution of trying to deliver better quality software faster.
Chemistry and optical sensing combo boosts food safety — By pairing chemistry with a new optical sensing platform, scientists are shining light on food quality and safety.
Is your quality management program working? — Screening a small percentage of calls may leave non-compliant interactions hidden, and risk fines, lost business, or worse.
The Growing Challenge of Data Quality in the Era of Cloud and Analytics — Across enterprises, there's an increasing recognition that data quality and integrity are essential to moving forward with data-driven efforts, especially as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced analytics initiatives are more widely adopted. At the same time, most companies are still finding out about data quality issues from customer and partner complaints.
The Geographic Communities Council (GCC) invites you to join their 2022 Fall Meeting, hosted on October 29th. — Agenda:

Welcome and Ice Breaker
GCC update
Enhancing member value and engagement through games (Zac Jarrard)
Breakout session 1: Collaboration workshop (Grace Duffy and Rhonda Farrell)
Breakout session 2: Recruit/Engage/Grow (Nancy Nouaimeh and Karen Maskell)
Breakout session sharing ideas to action
Call for "Acts of kindness"
Wrap up

October 26th — Test & Measurement Day — The Test & Measurement Day of EE Training Engineering Days training day will address challenges design engineers face in electronic testing.
This week marks what would have been Dr. Deming's 122nd birthday — In celebration of his legacy, we are asking you to consider giving the gift of Dr. Deming's teachings to a new generation of leaders.
- Will you help to make scholarships available to educators, small business owners, nonprofit leaders, and health care providers?
- Each year, with support from our community, we fund Deming enthusiasts who would not otherwise be able to take advantage of our resources, or attend our in-person seminars and virtual workshops.
- And now, with the launch of DemingNEXT we can make Dr. Deming's teachings available to more people, throughout the world!
- Your support can offer tremendous opportunities:
  - Scholarships for educators to travel to and attend an in-person 2.5-Day seminar
  - Scholarships for entreprenuers to attend a virtual workshop
  - Annual subscriptions to DemingNext for next generation leaders
  - Please join us in giving the gift of Deming: A gift at any level will help more individuals tap into the power of the Deming philosophy.
Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes — Final minutes from from August 2022, draft for September
Treasurer's Reports for September 2022

New or updated as of 6 October 2022

Our section's October 2022 Meeting — 15 October 2022 — George Washington Masonic National Memorial: Ranger Outing Event
The October issue of Quality Progress is now live! — This issue's theme: Quality 4.0 and innovation
Define the value of ASQ — Please participate in this ASQ survey and answer one question using one-to-two words which should take no more than 30 seconds.
October ASQ Member Gift — Lean & Six Sigma Tools and Culture
Informatica Data Quality review — The Informatica Data Quality solution is designed to meet the needs of organizations operating with globally distributed data environments. Discover more now.
Six Ways Tool Integration Dramatically Improves Test Management Processes and QA — Improving QA functionality by optimizing the flow in value streams ensures that communication never stops flowing. Embracing tool integration leads to dramatic improvements in an organization's QA and test management function. Integrating your best-of-breed test management tools provides the QA team visibility into requirements, which result in higher quality test coverage.
A comprehensive guide: How to measure data quality — Quality data is the cornerstone of good business decisions. To ensure that your data is high quality, it must first be measured. Learn how to measure data quality now.
Bust This Myth: Software Quality is Not Everyone'ss Problem — In the world of software delivery, machine breakdowns include tools and systems not integrating and interoperating, people not communicating, and the resultant defects that occur in the application under test. And the reality is that we do face communication breakdowns that impact the productivity and quality of everything we create. We assume that only C-level executives worry about software quality or feel the pressure of time-to-market and time-to-value. And that's not true!
Workforce Optimization Virtual Conference — You are invited to register for the WFO Virtual Conference brought to you by CrmXchange in conjunction with the Quality Assurance and Training Connection (QATC) and Society of Workforce Planning Professionals (SWPP).
Best practices for data quality in data warehouses — Data quality is paramount in data warehouses, but data quality practices are often overlooked during the development process.
Data quality solutions by Talend review — Talend is one of the most popular tools for data quality. Get details on using Talend's tools for data profiling, cleaning, standardization, matching and deduplication.
Upcoming Certification Application Deadline - October 8th — Testing Window: November 1 - 30, 2022; Application Deadline: October 8, 2022

CQT — Certified Quality Technician
CQI — Certified Quality Inspector
CRE — Certified Reliability Engineer
CMDA — Certified Medical Device Auditor
CFSQA — Certified Food Safety and Quality Auditor
CSSBB — Certified Six Sigma Black Belt
CMQ/OE — Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence
CSSYB — Certified Six Sigma Yellow Belt
CSQP — Certified Supplier Quality Professional

Latest News From Your ASQ Quality Management Division! — ASQ Quality Management Division Webinar 2022-2023 Series: Preparing for Process Analysis

New or updated as of 14 September 2022

Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
Our section's September 2022 Meeting — 14 September 2022 — Community Matters - ASQ Divisions: Energy and Environmental Division (EED) presented by Ken Rapuano, ASQ Section 0511 Vice Chair and Compliance Officer
Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes — Final minutes from from January – July 2022, draft for August
Dates and Times — for the remainder of 2022 meetings
ASQ Quality Management Division Webinar 2022-2023 Series — "Preparing For Process Analysis"
Pictures from our 16 July 2022 Ranger Outing to Shenandoah Caverns — If you have pictures you'd like to add, please send them to our webmaster at webmaster22@asq0511.org. Please identify anyone in the photos if you can.
Recent job postings — CMMI Process Improvement in an SAP website maintenance environment at CACI
Section Officer Elections ongoing — Timetable
- 08/01/22 – 8/31/22: Nominating Committee meets to decide the election process and communications. The nominating committee nominates one eligible candidate for each elected position.
- 09/01/22 – 9/30/22: Open Nomination period where section members can submit their nomination with a signed petition
- 10/05/22: Slate of Nominees Announced to Section Members. Elections are held for positions with more than one candidate. Candidates are prohibited from campaigning or having others campaign for them.
- 10/10/22 – 10/25/22: Membership Voting
- 10/25/22 – 10/31/22: Officers list reported to Component Relations
If you're interested in running for a section officer position please contact our nominations chair, Barbara McCullough, at Nominations22@asq0511.org
Writing Nonconformances That Stick! — In this members-only webcast, Susan Gorveatte explains corrective actions and non-conformances, and walks you through how to write the perfect problem statement. — They aim to bring you a conference that is not only worth your time and money, but leaves you with the newfound confidence, increased knowledge, and excitement to improve your career and your contact center.
Join ASQ's Quality 4.0 Summit on October 12-14 in San Antonio, TX — It's time to start thinking about setting your organization up for successful digital transformation in 2023 with the Quality 4.0 Summit. Learn to leverage creativity, gain innovation, analyze data insights, and satisfy stakeholders—elevating your organization and your career.
2023 ISO-LSS World Conference - In Person Event — March 13-16, 2023, Orlando Florida
You're Invited! Joint GCC and TCC Member Leader September Lunch & Learn — PEP Success Collaboration & Best Practices — Date: Friday, September 23, 2022
Without DevSecOps best practices, software releases can be plagued with quality and security issue — Here's a new DevSecOps training module in order to make software releases faster and more secure.
Data Quality Assessment: A Methodology for Success — Download the guide to learn more about next steps, and solutions to leverage the power of data!
September Member Gift Bundle — From Auditing Basics to Quality 4.0
Digital Transformation Success Demands Digital Assurance: A Manifesto — Historically, businesses have relied on quality testing and quality assurance (QA) to ensure trust.
The September issue of Quality Progress is now live! — This issue: Quality tools and basics
Quality 4.0 Analytics Webinar: A Data Hub Approach to Quality Management and Execution — In today's industrial scenario, analytics programs are seen as an important pillar and key enabler of not just Quality 4.0 but several other Industrial Transformation (IX) programs.
Real-Time Coaching — How to Supercharge your Quality Program — Join us September 22, 1pm Eastern as we share best practices for Real-Time Coaching
Improving QA functionality by optimizing the flow in value streams will ensure that communication never stops flowing. — Embracing tool integration will lead to dramatic improvements in an organization's quality assurance and test management function. Integrating your best-of-breed test management tools with other tools will provide the QA team visibility into requirements, which results in higher quality test coverage.
Is Designed Data Collection Still Relevant in the Big Data Era? — Virginia Tech is pleased to host the inaugural Douglas C. Montgomery Distinguished Lecture with Dr. Christine M. Anderson-Cook on Tuesday, September 20 at 3:30 p.m. in the Fralin Life Sciences Institute Auditorium and virtually via Zoom.
Bust This Myth: Software Quality is not Everyone's Problem — In this webinar, we will look at six ways tool integration improves test management processes and QA
No more rewrite. Only reuse. — When you effectively reuse content instead of constantly rewriting it from scratch, you can achieve much more — quality assurance, accelerated content creation, improved content quality, elimination of error-prone manual workflows, and so on.
Treasurer's Reports for August 2022

New or updated as of 10 August 2022

Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
Our section's August 2022 Meeting — 10 August 2022 — Community Matters: Connections by Divisions presented by Ken Rapuano, ASQ Section 0511 Vice Chair and Compliance Officer
Tricentis Test Automation for ServiceNow — Request a one-on-one demo of Tricentis Test Automation for ServiceNow. You will see how automated testing that is built directly on the ServiceNow platform can help you deliver digital workflows faster, and with higher quality.
Quality is the backbone of ICMI's Contact Center Expo — They aim to bring you a conference that is not only worth your time and money, but leaves you with the newfound confidence, increased knowledge, and excitement to improve your career and your contact center.
DevOps Feedback Loop Explained: Weak Feedback — Previous stories were devoted to the delayed, noisy and cascaded feedback loops, and today we will shed light on what the weak feedback means. Code quality and maintainability are important attributes of fast digital delivery.
Unlock New Ways of Analyzing Customer Experience Data with AI — A wealth of information about your customers resides in your data. Artificial intelligence provides a new method to measure customer satisfaction on a large scale and new insight on the influence of agent behavior on this metric. You will learn how to:
- Measure customer satisfaction on every interaction and agent behaviors that influence it
- Automate quality programs and agent coaching with actionable insights uncovered by AI
- Align organizational CX goals with your analytics and quality program.
The benefits of modern test automation — To keep pace with "the life of a model that not so long ago would have been a calendar year is now measured in terms of an Internet year, which is 90 days," said Jim Blasingame, former contributor to Forbes Magazine. With the growing backlog of tests, many QA teams that typically create manual scripts for functional, regression, and performance testing are turning to test automation to auto-generate test scripts for shorter release cycles.
The benefits of modern test automation — You will see how automated testing that is built directly on the ServiceNow platform can help you deliver digital workflows faster, and with higher quality.
Recent job postings — Quality Assurance Engineer in Remote (Any State), Engineering at CACI

New or updated as of 9 August 2022

Quantitative, objective audio measurements have a role to play not just during design validation and as a manufacturing quality control tool — Audio measurements for product development. It pays to know the fundamental parameters that quantify the performance of sound equipment.
Maximizing engineering resources with quality engineering — Modern software development can often feel like a Catch-22: to keep customers happy, companies must deliver new features faster. But deliver too fast without enough testing and bugs can slip into production, frustrating the customers who eagerly awaited the new feature in the first place. This paradigm often pits quality assurance against developers as they deliberate over the balance between speed and quality
Explore an Evolving Approach to Quality at the Quality 4.0 Summit — Learn how emerging industry trends will impact the quality industry with technical sessions and thought-provoking presentations. Join quality professionals in person for the 2022 Quality 4.0 Summit in San Antonio, Texas, from October 12-14!
Wi-Fi 6E improvements in speed and transmission quality come with complex testing requirements — What You Should Know About Regulatory Test for Wi-Fi 6E Devices. Learn about the measurement challenges and regulatory requirements for wireless IoT devices.
Report: Psychological safety for dev teams fosters innovation — As important as it is for organizations to continue to innovate their software products quickly and with quality, that cannot be achieved in today's world without ensuring "psychological safety" for its development teams.
How Data and Machine Learning Improve Obsolescence Management — Data improves obsolescence management: Partners like A2 Global use data to forecast, source, and deliver components that don'sxt compromise on quality.
TE CONNECTIVITY – Accelerate the next industrial revolution — Providing products and solutions engineered for high precision and durability under extreme conditions and heavy use, TE Connectivity enables increased efficiency and greater control over production quality, maintenance, and the supply chain. Newark partners with TE Connectivity to provide quick access to these products resources to help your projects
Have you completed your annual ASQ data privacy training? The Handling Personal Data — GDPR EU Regulations course is a mandatory requirement of the Society. The deadline for completion was March 31st. Failure to complete the training impacts your access to your member unit's SharePoint site; complete the training as soon as possible! Check your email and this event for details on accessing the training. We are currently at a 78% completion rate. Incoming member leaders are required to complete the training prior to Office 365 account creation.
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.
GAO Released Report on DATA Act — U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its final statutorily required report on Federal Spending Transparency, with insights on the quality of agencies' data submissions under the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act).
Early Bird Registration is now open for Quality 4.0: An Evolving Approach to Quality! — Join ASQ in San Antonio, Texas, October 12 – 14 for a uniquely focused conference on adopting Quality 4.0 to build scalability, sustainability, and adaptability in your organization.
Industry Solutions Guide: DevOpsTools — Many of the technology methodology "buzzwords" fizzle out and remain nothing, but according to Charles Betz, principal analyst at Forrester, DevOps has been an exception to this "IT fashion show." Despite this, most companies aren't where they could be when it comes to their DevOps evolutions. So what is keeping so many companies in the middle? And what exactly does it mean to be in "mid-level evolution?" [DevOps is a continual evolution of trying to deliver better quality software faster.] "So, you're always going to be improving, and looking to improve as you go," says Rob Cuddy of HCL Software.
Microsoft introduces Windows Community Toolkit Labs — The new "Labs" repository will hold discussions about new items and development along with initial 'experiments' that will each represent a new component (or set of related components) that will begin its journey from an initial implementation to a well-tested feature working through a defined set a criteria and quality gates along the way.
Using a systematic leadership system to cultivate continuous improvement and agility — SPQA welcomes you to sit in on a training opportunity coming up in the month of September. We hope you can join us!
Generative Design Sparks Innovation — Across industries, organizations are searching for ways to optimize productivity and design quality for engineers, who face mounting pressure to turn out innovative products faster than ever to compete effectively in today's continuously shifting markets.
Hiring Kit — Quality Assurance Engineer
ASQ Quality Management Division Webinar 2022-2023 Series: Preparing for Process Analysis — The ASQ Quality Management Division is excited to announce its newest webinar series – "Preparing for Process Analysis" – with Sandy Furterer and Doug Wood.
July Journal of Innovation — Trustworthiness — The Trustworthiness Task Group explores aspects of trustworthiness relevant to industrial IIoT and the Industry IoT Consortium's (IIC) vision of an industrial IoT ecosystem including Measuring the Trustworthiness of Software with ISO/IEC 5055 – Bill Curtis, Consortium for Information and Software Quality
DevOps feedback loop explained: Cascaded feedback — As you look at the bigger picture of the quality process, it becomes clear that earlier feedback impacted, and may have created or obscured, subsequent feedback or issues.
It's time to start planning for 2023! — Member units are required to implement a nomination and election cycle for each term, comprised of the following essential steps:
- Nominating Committee Meets
- Call for Nominations Sent
- Nominees Announced to Membership
- Election Held (if needed)
- Officers Declared
The August issue of Quality Progress is now live! — This issue: Standards and auditing
Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes — New March and updated May, draft June & July
Upcoming Webinar – Quality Management Tools — Quality Management Tools that Improve the Process at Home, Community, and Work
How Nordea modernized testing for DevOps and implemented a data-driven QA — By creating a centralized QA capability group, the Nordea QA team transformed a once manual, time-consuming testing process with an innovative, data-driven approach that has improved quality across the business. Watch the webinar to hear from Nordea QA leaders about how they applied the concept of the data warehouse to QA, resulting in faster time to market and significantly improved release confidence that supports the organization's DevOps initiatives.
August Member Gift Bundle — Tools for Cultural Transformation: Creating a Culture That's Ready for Change
Register Now: September Instructor-led Lean Six Sigma Certification Classes — Green and Black Belts and Lean Expert with Michael Stamp, Master Black Belt
Treasurer's Reports for June and July 2022

New or updated as of 11 July 2022

Tuesday the 12th is the last day to register for our section's July 2022 Meeting — Shenandoah Caverns: Ranger Outing Event Saturday July 16th, 2022 11:00am ET
Submit a proposal for either the ISO 9000 & Audits World Conference (ISO) or the Lean Six Sigma World Conference (LSS) by 30 September 2022 — 31st Annual ISO 9000 & Audits World Conference 13 - 14 March 2023 and 21st Annual Lean Six Sigma World Conference from 15-16 March 2023
Software quality with digital immunity — Cloud, social and immersive computing scenarios have revised expectations for application quality and delivery
The July issue of Quality Progress is now live! — Cover Story – Fending Off Fragility by Moon, Jayet – A new approach to risk in the age of Quality 4.0 that emphasizes risk intelligence and proactive risk management.
July 15 is the deadline for presentations for DGIQ in Washington, D.C. — Submit your proposal today to be considered for a speaking slot this December.
Improving Quality & Productivity — Your best people have skills. But are they management skills? Help both the employee and those they will supervise to be their very best with the ICMI Supervisor Leadership Development Program! Just four days of training spread across four weeks can improve both management skills and fundamentals of the call center's unique operating environment.
On-Demand Test Environments for Development and QA — Coordinating convenient and simultaneous access to the various staged, virtualized, and live dependent components for just one test environment is a daunting task. Provisioning all the different environments required across an organization — each with the necessary configuration — is often overwhelming.
Maximizing engineering resources with quality engineering — Modern software development can often feel like a Catch-22: to keep customers happy, companies must deliver new features faster. But deliver too fast without enough testing and bugs can slip into production, frustrating the customers who eagerly awaited the new feature in the first place. This paradigm often pits quality assurance against developers as they deliberate over the balance between speed and quality.
How to ensure quality and employee performance across all engagement channels — Best Practices: The Future Of Workforce Optimization – July 12 1:00 Pm Eastern
New AI Readiness Report Reveals Insights into ML Lifecycle — Data quality problems must be addressed since they have a "significant downstream impact" on ML efforts, the report finds.
The quality of customer interactions counts — Email topped the list of likely methods to drive conversion at 49%, according to a Digital Commerce 360 and Bizrate Insights conversion survey of 1,108 shoppers from January 2022.
July Member Gift Bundle — Tools for Identifying and Addressing Risks
3 Components of Financial Transformation: People, Process, Technology — The primary objective of any financial transformation project is to achieve process improvements by improving the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of financial information, ultimately enhancing shareholder value. — Submit your proposal today to be considered for a speaking slot this December.

New or updated as of 29 June 2022

Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
Our section's July 2022 Meeting — 16 July 2022 — Shenandoah Caverns: Ranger Outing Event Saturday July 16th, 2022 11:00am ET
New Mentoring Program – Applications Due July 31 — We're excited to bring you an opportunity to participate in ASQ's new Mentoring Program. We are preparing to launch our next group for our 3rd pilot program.
ASQ Certification examination testing Window: August 1 – 31, 2022 — Application Deadline: July 5, 2022:
- CSSGB – Certified Six Sigma Green Belt
- CQIA – Certified Quality Improvement Associate
- CQPA – Certified Quality Process Analyst
- CQA – Certified Quality Auditor
- CQE – Certified Quality Engineer
- CSQE – Certified Software Quality Engineer
- CCT – Certified Calibration Technician
- CPGP – Certified Pharmaceutical GMP Professional
Take the 2022 ASQ Salary Survey! — "Do I get paid enough for what I do?" If you're career driven and always looking for opportunities to advance, that question is always in the back of your mind. One reliable source to help you find answers is the annual ASQ Salary Survey.
Meet the Experts — Join us for a webinar where we demonstrate how Informatica's cloud data quality solution leverages AI-powered automation to deliver fit-for-purpose data in the cloud.
Best Practice Roundtable: The Future of WFO on July 12, 1:00pm Eastern — To best optimize your workforce, companies need to combine WFM, Quality Management and other call center tools into one console to oversee call center performance. Hear best practices and actionable insights that can help fine-tune the contact center.
Unit Testing: The Definitive Guide — Unit testing is important for code quality, but if you've never done it before how would you know where to begin? And even if you're an experienced developer, are there ways you could unit test more effectively?
The 7 Cs of Data Quality: Your Data Quality Scorecard — Is your contact data helping your business or hurting it? The health of a company's data impacts departments across the organization - including marketing, sales, accounting, and compliance.
Data Quality Assessment: A Methodology for Success — The world's most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data, states 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
DQ0: Data Quality Learning Plan — In the Data Quality Learning Plan, instructor Danette McGilvray examines how to better leverage a multitude of Data Quality principles and practices so that an organization can ensure they have high-quality data assets.
DQRR0: Data Quality Roles and Responsibilities Learning Plan — In the Data Quality Roles and Responsibilities Learning Plan, instructor Thomas Redman helps business and data professionals learn how to create, roll out, and enhance company-wide Data Quality initiatives.
Closing the Customer Experience Gap with Continuous Automation — 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
Increasing Throughput, Reducing Downtime, and Improving Quality — Interested in learning about the Benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in Manufacturing? IoT World Today invites you to read this 6-page brief and learn about the role of AI and ML in the industrial internet of things (IIoT), the benefits AI and ML, as well as the ways companies can use AI and ML models along with sensor data to transform production.
The Spring Quality Management Forum is Here! — This Month's Topics: Impact Effort Matrix & Idea Creation & Generation Tools.
The role of software testing and quality engineering in DevOps adoption — Most teams are somewhere on the path to DevOps maturity, with just 11% saying they've implemented full automation in DevOps.
Force sensing — Detects mechanical forces like pressure, weight, tension and resistance, helps keep factories running and product quality high, in addition to giving "May the force be with you" a whole new meaning.
Data Governance & Information Quality Conference — Do you have a compelling case study, tutorial, or presentation that Data Governance professionals could benefit from? Submit by July 15, 2022.
Manage projects in a way that transforms the speed and quality of completed work — Virtual Summit: Adopt an Agile Framework for MSP Transformation
Industry Solutions Guide: DevOpsTools — DevOps is a continual evolution of trying to deliver better quality software faster
To best optimize your workforce, companies need to combine WFM, Quality Management and other call center tools into one console to oversee call center performance — Hear best practices and actionable insights that can help fine-tune the contact center.
Test & learn: The ultimate guide to delivering high-quality, high-impact products — Speed doesn't always equal quality. While speed and agility are essential when it comes to delivering products and meeting high customer expectations, customer journeys span multiple devices and touchpoints, and complex platform architectures make each release riskier and harder to test.
In Search of Coding Quality — "The lower the OPEX, the better the code".
Used as quality control, these haunting images were never meant to be public — The Forgotten 'China Girls' Hidden at the Beginning of Old Films
Turning Disruption and Change into Peak Performance — Summary of Baldrige Foundation CEO Innovation Council. Roundtable: April 7-8, 2022.
The Baldrige Foundation Institute for Performance Excellence and about Healthcare Present — Virtual Executive Roundtable Discussion Re: Systemness – Moving from Disruption and Change to Optimal Performance
Understand the different facets (or dimensions) of Data Quality and explore a workable Data Quality framework — Live training on Data Management fundamentals is right around the corner (July 25-28, 2022). Don't miss industry expert Christopher Bradley as he helps you prepare to take the CDMP Data Management Fundamentals exam while learning all about the core DMBoK Data Management concepts.
Chinese shoppers who have purchased foreign products online in the past year say they will buy more Western goods in the year ahead. Product quality is the main reason they buy goods from the West — Despite tensions, many Chinese online shoppers still covet Western goods.
Recent job postings — Quality Managers for ISO 9001 and/or ISO 17025. Ideally 1 candidate could fulfill both roles full-time, or have 2 part-time candidates focus on 9001 and 17025, respectively.
Future of Quality: Risk — If a 'Yes' Is Not a 'Yes' - It Is a Risk!

New or updated as of 14 June 2022

Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
June Member Gift Bundle — ASQ Member Benefits and Resources

New or updated as of 11 June 2022

Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
Our section's June 2022 Meeting — 13 July 2022 — Save the date
Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes — April 2022

New or updated as of 8 June 2022

Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! — Make it your home page on MyASQ
Our section's June 2022 Meeting — 8 June 2022 — Quality Matters Round Table: Test moderated by Muzaffar Zaffar, ASQ Section 0511 Education Chair
The June issue of Quality Progress is now live! — Each month, QP Live delivers the latest feature articles from Quality Progress right to your inbox.
Pictures from our Paradise Springs Winery: Ranger Outing Event on Saturday, 15 May 2022 — If you have pictures you'd like to add, please send them to our webmaster at webmaster22@asq0511.org. Please identify anyone in the photos.

New or updated as of 7 June 2022

Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! — Make it your home page on MyASQ
Our section's June 2022 Meeting — 8 June 2022 — Quality Matters Round Table: Test moderated by Muzaffar Zaffar, ASQ Section 0511 Education Chair
Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes — Draft May 2022
Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes — April 2022
Deming Leadership Seminar for Executives, Entrepreneurs, and Managers — 2.5-day Introduction and Immersion in Columbus, OH
The Spring Quality Management Forum is Here! — Visit our myASQ community to download the Spring 2022 Quality Management Forum.
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.
SPQA is excited to announce two training opportunities coming up in the month of June. We hope you can join us! — From fuzzy ideas to focused results: Strategic planning to filter out noise and drive progress and Baldrige for Beginners
Treasurer's Reports for February — May 2022

New or updated as of 6 May 2022

Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! — Make it your home page on MyASQ
Our section's May 2022 Meeting — Paradise Springs Winery: Ranger Outing Event on Saturday, 15 May 2022 — attendance is limited to the first 20 registrants

New or updated as of 13 April 2022

Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
Our section's April 2022 Meeting — Wednesday. 13 April 2022 – Quality Matters Round Table: Model-based Process Improvement Moderated by BarbaraMcCullough, ASQ Section 0511 Nominations Chair, Past Chair

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.