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.
• To learn about current or future education training opportunities, please contact our Education chair
• 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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    • Discover inside connections that can help you land jobs and close deals
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    • 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.

    When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your professional and academic accomplishments. You can add more connections by inviting trusted contacts to join Linkedin and connect to you. Linkedin is free to join and has a stringent privacy policy. They will not rent or sell your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes or share your contact information with another user.

  • What are the benefits of adding a group to my profile?

    By adding the ASQ 0511 Group to your profile, you can:

    • Accelerate your career through referrals from ASQ 0511 members
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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

• Our February Ranger Outing at River Sea Chocolate Factory Sunday, 16 February 2025, 12:30 & 3:30 p.m. with a networking lunch at 2PM
• Helpout at our Hybrid February SLC meeting Wesnesday, 12 February 2025, 4:30 at Burke Center Public Library

• Our January meeting: Wednesday, 8 January 2025, 7:00 p.m. � 8:30 p.m. — Outgoing Section Chair's Report Presented by Ken Rapuano, Outgoing Section Chair
• Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes: Draft December Minutes
• Process Improvement Committee Meeting Minutes: January 2025 report by Maria Habib

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• Introducing the Enhanced Member Unit Operating Agreement for 2025, webinar this Friday! The goal was to modernize the document to meet the needs of the Society today. The team also took steps to review the language and soften the overall tone. Changes were made, as well, to align with the work currently being done and to highlight the partnership between ASQ Member Units and staff.
• Last Chance: Apply for January 2025 Exams — Deadline Extended! Testing Window: January 1-31, 2025 — Application Deadline Extended: December 10, 2024
• Membership Reports for December 2024 In December 2024: We lost 2 senior and 2 professional memberships and gained one student. Since April 2023 we lost 21 Seniors and 85 full memberships= 106 total. No new members in December 2024.
• Free Webinar — Ask an Auditor: How to Always be Audit Ready! Compliance audits are a way of life, but they don't have to be difficult, time-consuming or stressful. You can better manage and increase passing audits by always staying "audit ready" — promoting continuous improvement to grow your organization. Join Crystal Sliva, QA Auditor for Intertek and Kendra Hoy, Senior Quality Assurance Internal Auditor for Sierra Nevada Corporation for a panel discussion about what it means to always be "audit ready
• You're invited to the A Virtual Town Hall Meeting: with PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE QMD CHAIRS
• Free Webinar: Cleaning Up Quality Problems By Eliminating Poor-Quality Costs! Join Scott Koszalinski, Quality Business Excellence Manager at BSH Home Appliances Corporation for a discussion on how to they ensure high-quality products are delivered to their customers.
• Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes: Draft November Minutes
• 2025 CQSDI Registration Now Open! 32^nd Collaboration on Quality in the Space and Defense Industries Forum — Building and sustaining resilience in Quality – Navigating the workforce, customer experience, supply chain, and critical skills needed

• Our December meeting: Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 7:00 p.m. � 8:30 p.m. — Internal Auditing in a Small Business:bBest practices for remote audits and how MS Teams can help Presented by Maria Habib

• Member Leader Training: TCC Presents — Leverage Membership Strategies to Energize Your Community: Friday, November 15, 2024 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
• World Quality Month Is Here!Join the Movement for Excellence
• Treasurer's Report for October 2024
• Membership Reports: for November 2024
• Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes: Draft October Minutes
• Recent job postings — Quality Specialist

• Our November meeting: Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. — 2024 Ranger Outings: A Year in Review, conducted by Ken Rapuano

• Section Elections: ASQ requires our Section register all elected positions for CY 2025 by November 1, 2024. Nominations are due by October 1, 2024 and our elections will be held as part of our October 9, 2024 Section Meeting. With the change in RU awards, SLC participation is one of the largest free RU awards available starting on 2025. Ken is term-limited and the Section needs a Chair for 2025.
• Section Leadership Committee (SLC) Meeting: October 9, 2024 — Section Elections and Streaming Training
• November's World Quality Month: For more information, explore this information to prepare you and your member unit.
• Data Quality Assessment: A Methodology for Success: "The world's most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data", stated The Economist. Many have noticed the increased value of data — from contact information to buying patterns — and how vital it is to so many aspects of business operations. Data can be used for marketing strategies, business intelligence, customer behavior patterns and so much more. But how can one be sure the data is reliable? Ultimately, bad data can lead to bad business decisions.
• The evolution and future of AI-driven testing: Ensuring quality and addressing bias: Automated testing began as a way to alleviate the repetitive and time-consuming tasks associated with manual testing. Early tools focused on running predefined scripts to check for expected outcomes, significantly reducing human error and increasing test coverage.
• Pictures from our most recent Ranger Outing at Meadowlark Botanical Garden — If you have pictures you'd like to add, please send them to our webmaster. Please identify anyone in the photos if you can.

• ASQ Certification Testing Window: November 1- 30, 2024 — Application Deadline: October 13, 2024
• Section Elections: ASQ requires our Section register all elected positions for CY 2025 by November 1, 2024. Nominations are due by October 1, 2024 and our elections will be held as part of our October 9, 2024 Section Meeting. With the change in RU awards, SLC participation is one of the largest free RU awards available starting on 2025. Ken is term-limited and the Section needs a Chair for 2025.
• The ASQ Insider: Member Spotlight, New Courses, Community Events, and More!
• The evolution and future of AI-driven testing: Ensuring quality and addressing bias: Automated testing began as a way to alleviate the repetitive and time-consuming tasks associated with manual testing. Early tools focused on running predefined scripts to check for expected outcomes, significantly reducing human error and increasing test coverage. With advancements in AI, particularly in machine learning and natural language processing, testing tools have become more sophisticated. AI-driven tools can now learn from previous tests, predict potential defects, and adapt.
• Contact Center QA Analysis: Aligning your Contact Center's quality assurance (QA) or quality monitoring program with strategic objectives can be a challenging task, but doing so ensures that future performance has a direct impact on customer satisfaction. And that makes it worth the effort.
• The Future is Now — Application Testing with AI: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm — from retail, banking, healthcare, marketing, and more. AI is transforming the digital landscape and continues to grow in importance every day. AI is making similar strides in application development and testing, with teams racing to determine how AI will help them achieve a faster time to market, improve software quality, and mitigate risks. Research from EY supports this notion that time is of the essence.

• Our October Ranger Outing: Saturday, 5 October 2024, Noon – 1:15 p.m. — Meadowlark Botanical Gardens Ranger Outing Event
• Section Elections: ASQ requires our Section register all elected positions for CY 2025 by November 1, 2024. Nominations are due by October 1, 2024 and our elections will be held as part of our October 9, 2024 Section Meeting. With the change in RU awards, SLC participation is one of the largest free RU awards available starting on 2025. Ken is term-limited and the Section needs a Chair for 2025.

• Our September meeting: Wednesday, 11 September 2024, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. — Report from the WCQI presented by Maria Habib and Barbara McCullough

• Our monthly meeting: Wednesday, 14 August 2024, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. — Conducting MARVEL-ous Audits presented by Susan Gorveatte, President of Gorveatte Consulting Inc
• Register for Modernizing Oversight: A Systems Approach to Evaluating our Nation's Critical Infrastructure: Wednesday, August 28, 2024 | 5:00 PM CT / 6:00 PM ET

• Your Learning Path Starts Here: Do you feel like you're falling behind due to outdated skills or knowledge gaps? ASQ's targeted courses offer the solution. Our applied learning approach doesn't just teach theory — it builds practical competencies that directly impact your projects and bottom line.

• 73% of orgs faced product recalls in the past five years: Download your copy of the new report now to discover how ETQ Reliance® can help your organization grow by mitigating risks, reducing recalls and building a culture of continuous quality improvement.

• Cleaning Up Quality Problems: 20% of every dollar within the electronics industry is wasted on scrap, rework and returns. So how do you reduce these poor-quality costs and protect your bottom line? Easily, with an electronic quality management system (EQMS). You can eliminate variations and waste during the production process by setting global quality standards through better documentation and training.
• July 2024 Meeting Slides: Boeing Quality Problems — Coda by Jeff Parnes
• July 2024 Meeting Slides: Deepwater Horizon — What Went Wrong? by Jeff Parnes

• Our monthly meeting: Wednesday, 14 August 2024, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. — Conducting MARVEL-ous Audits presented by Susan Gorveatte, President of Gorveatte Consulting Inc
• Photographs! Our November 13 program will be Ranger Outings A Year in Review . Please send any Ranger Outing photographs you d like to share with that program to Webmaster24@asq0511.org. Additional text descriptions would be helpful.
• Section Elections: ASQ requires our Section register all elected positions for CY 2025 by November 1, 2024. Nominations are due by October 1, 2024 and our elections will be held as part of our October 9, 2024 Section Meeting. With the change in RU awards, SLC participation is one of the largest free RU awards available starting on 2025. Ken is term-limited and the Section needs a Chair for 2025.

• Join ASQ in Milwaukee This Fall: You are invited to attend ASQ's 2024 Quality Innovations Summit in Milwaukee, WI, October 8-10.
• Apply Now for August 2024 Exams: Testing Window: August 1-31, 2024 — Application Deadline Extended: July 12, 2024
• Streamlining Audits and Scaling Compliance - A Webinar from ETQ: Remediation for a single audit finding can cost an organization, on average, $5,000. So how do you ensure your organization has visibility into audit findings and the corrective actions plans to save the bottom line?
• The Quality Manager as Facilitator: A Deep Dive into Facilitation with Zac Jarrard: Quality managers often work as facilitators to guide a team throughout a project or during important meetings. A key part of this includes facilitating meetings and bringing key stakeholders together to make important decisions. The use of facilitation skills is vital to making progress on large initiatives. Wednesday, July 17, 2024 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
• Membership Reports: for July 2024
• Take the 2024 ASQ Salary Survey! ASQ s survey of quality professionals salaries has launched, and we need your help. Filling out the questionnaire will help QP editors accurately report on what it s like to work in quality, as well as the challenges you and your colleagues face each day.
• Getting the Most Out of an EQMS A successful QMS implementation requires planning and adherence to best practices to transform how your business operates. The reward is a QMS that helps your company foster continual improvement, enhance customer satisfaction, and ensure global compliance. However, deploying and managing an enterprise QMS software solution can be challenging, especially when you face the inertia of outdated systems and processes or resistance to change within the company culture.
• ASQ Specialized Credential Market Research Survey Invite ASQ invites you to participate in a brief survey to gather insights and opinions on our Specialized Credentials product line. Your input is incredibly valuable to us and will greatly assist us in shaping future initiatives related to our Specialized Credentials.

• ETQ Quality in Manufacturing Survey: : More than 50% Say Suppliers Spur Recalls
• Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes: Draft June Minutes
• June 2024 Meeting Slides: Boeing Quality — What Went Wrong? by Jeff Parnes
New or updated as of 8 July 2024
• Our monthly meeting: Wednesday, 10 Julty 2024, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. — Deepwater Horizon - What Went Wrong? Lead by Jeff Parnes
New or updated as of 12 June 2024
• Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes: Draft May
• Modernizing Oversight: A Systems Approach to Evaluating our Nation's Critical InfrastructureBegin your ASQ learning path and reinforce your skills by taking instructor-led virtual courses this summer and build the competence necessary to solve today's business challenges.
• Ready To Take Your Next Step This Summer? When: Aug 28, 2024 from 6 PM to 7 PM (ET), Associated with Quality Management Division (QMD) with Rob De La Espriella
• Change Management for Small to Medium Organizations When: Sep 18, 2024 from 6 PM to 7 PM (ET) Associated with Quality Management Division (QMD) with Douglas C. Wood and Sandra L. Furterer
• Quality Seminar at Sea Cruise As recommended by our very own Barbara McCullough, September 22-29, 2024. put together by 3 ASQ Fellows but not sponsored by any section. There are 3-1/2 days of Professional Development classes and the rest of the days you are on your own to do as you please. Ports are Costa Maya, Mexico, Roatan, Honduras and Cozumel, Mexico. Group price ends 6/22/24
• Are you looking to be ahead of the newest industry innovations? Dig into the future of sustainability? Grow your community of peers? All of the above? ASQ has events for you!
• Membership Reports: for June 2024
New or updated as of 8 June 2024
• Our monthly meeting: Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. — Boeing Quality - What Went Wrong? Lead by Jeff Parnes
New or updated as of 7 May 2024
• Our monthly meeting: Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. — Quality 4.0: Don't Feel Overwhelmed, Feel Motivated
• Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes: Draft March & April
• Membership Reports: for April & May 2024
• 2024 ASQ Bylaws Amendments Member Vote: This ballot ends on May 14 at 7:00 PM CDT. To vote, please visit: https://asq.simplyvoting.com/
• Spring 2024 Quality Management Forum: Welcome to the spring 2024 issue of Quality Management Forum. It's a lovely time of year as the cold weather starts to break and spring springs into the season.
Spring 2024 Quality Management Forum
• The power of automation and AI in testing environments Software testing is a critical aspect of the SDLC, but constraints on time and resources can cause software companies to treat testing as an afterthought, rather than a linchpin in product quality.
• Designing for Aerospace: The recent Boeing accidents and crashes have highlighted the need for top-notch engineering, quality management and safety processes in the aerospace industry. This is not just a design or engineering issue, though. Aircraft safety relies on an integrated approach to quality that runs from design to manufacturing to maintenance.
• Call For Proposals! The Data Foundation is accepting proposals for our 2024 Research Symposium! The deadline is Wednesday, May 15, 2024, midnight ET. Preference will be given to proposals that focus on amongst the following themes: Innovative methods for facilitating data quality, security, and privacy in public sector applications, including with AI
• How testing can improve a company's EBITDA: SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein interviews Kim Mirazimi, chief revenue officer at KMS Technology and Nilesh Patel, senior director of software services at KMS Technology. They talk about how testing can improve a company's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization), which is a way of measuring profitability. Kim and Nilesh make the case that by improving testing, organizations can lower costs and deliver higher quality software product more quickly.
• Consensus builder: Donald E. Petersen, who as CEO of Ford in the 1980s brought in quality guru W. Edwards Deming to improve the car company's product, died at age 97. (WSJ)
• Data Quality: A Methodology for Success: The value of data has increased exponentially — from contact information to buying patterns — and how vital it is to so many aspects of business operations.
New or updated as of 23 March 2024
• Our monthly meeting: Saturday, 13 April 2024, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm — Ranger Outing Event: The Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts
• Pictures from our most recent Ranger Outings and other activities — If you have pictures you'd like to add, please send them to our webmaster. Please identify anyone in the photos if you can.
• Elevate Company Culture with Quality Press Books — If you're a leader, cultivating a culture of quality starts with your people—the backbone of your company. Whether new to the company or refining an existing environment, here are aome books that can guide you.
• March ASQ Insider — Your inside scoop to all things ASQ
• 2025 ASQ Board of Directors Election Update — Cast your vote for the 2025 ASQ Board of Directors Vote Today
• Member Spotlight  — Natasha Harding Overton, the South Atlantic Region Director, regularly shares her knowledge on myASQ and provides ASQ content for the World Conference on Quality and Improvement recap videos. Read Now
• Ready to Retool? — What you need to know when you're deciding to recast your career, including knowing the new landscape that learners, employers and educators are operating in, and embracing AI and technology at your job. Read More
• Driving Sustainable Development: ASQE's Supply Chain Insights — Dive into ASQE's Focus Study and understand how optimizing supply chains can drive sustainable development and mitigate financial risks, with support from quality methodologies. Complimentary Download
• Upcoming Webinars — from your ASQ Quality Management Division
• Fundraising and Quality Management: — A Perfect Partnership for Mission Impact: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 | 5:00-6:00 PM CT Register
• Modernizing Oversight: — Shifting the Oversight Midset from Checklists to High Value Risk Mitigation: Wednesday, May 22, 2024 | 5:00-6:00 PM CT Register
• Now's your chance to level up your career — Stop waiting for the right moment to invest in your career–now's the time! At ASQ's 2024 World Conference on Quality & Improvement, you'll be able to check a number of professional goals off your list
• Experience myASQ's newest feature today! Explore the Volunteer Manager and get started! — We are excited to announce the launch of our newest feature to the myASQ platform – the Volunteer Manager ASQ's newest tool is designed to better engage, promote and manage volunteer opportunities for your community.
• Building a modern testing center of excellence March 27 — What is the role of a testing center of excellence within an Agile or distributed delivery model?
New or updated as of 12 March 2024
• Recent job postings — Quality and Mission Assurance Engineer
• It's a lucky week! Receive a $250 discount when you register for #WCQI2024 by Sunday, March 17th! — What will you discover at the 2024 World Conference on Quality & Improvement?
• Measurement System Analysis and Process Capability: Their Symbiotic Relationship — Wednesday, March 13, 2024 | 6:30-7:30 PM CT
New or updated as of 9 March 2024
• Our monthly meeting: Wednesday, 13 March 2024, 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. — Listening to the Customer
• Pictures from our most recent Ranger Outings and other activities — If you have pictures you'd like to add, please send them to our webmaster. Please identify anyone in the photos if you can.
• Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes
• March Member Gift Bundle — This Month's Gift Bundle: LSS Tools for Improving and Controlling Your Processes
• MSA & Cpk: Their Symbiotic Relationship — March 13, 2024 from 06:30 PM to 07:30 PM (CT) Do you want to know about how Process Capability (Cpk) and Measurement System Analysis (MSA) are inter-related to each other? This is especially important if you have critical measurements where you need to enable your teams need to make the right decision.
• Lead Projects with Agility and Transparency — Are you looking to lead by influence rather than authority and cultivate a culture of collaboration? Then consider a Graduate Certificate in Lean & Agile Practices from Georgetown University. Through focused study and hands-on practice, our four-course certificate immerses you in the complex, dynamic landscape of project agility. You'll engage with leading experts and practitioners who will expose you to the latest tools and best practices in Lean and Agile.
• Apply Now for April 2023 Exams — Testing Window: April 1-30, 2024 Application Deadline: March 10, 2024
• Register Now for CQSDI — the Best Knowledge Sharing and Networking Event in Aviation, Space & Defense Industries
• Membership Report for March 2024
New or updated as of 02 February 2024
• Our monthly meeting: Saturday, 17 February 2024 - Gadsby's Tavern Museum Ranger Outing Event
New or updated as of 7 January 2024
• Our monthly meeting: Wednesday, 10 January 2024 - Professional Night: Path to Quality, conducted by Quality Professionals of ASQ Section 0511
• Our section email addresses are now in the format Position24@asq0511.org. All email links on the website are being updated, but if you come across one not in the proper format please be sure to update it in your email application!
• Pictures from our various Ranger Outings and other activities — If you have pictures you'd like to add, please send them to our webmaster. Please identify anyone in the photos if you can.
• Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes
• 32nd Annual ISO 9000 & Audits World Conference — 18 & 19 March 2024
New or updated as of 10 December 2023
• Our monthly meeting: Wednesday, 13 December 2023 - Professional Night: Path to Quality, conducted by Quality Professionals of ASQ Section 0511
New or updated as of 2 November 2023
• Our monthly meeting: Wednesday, 8 November 2023 - 2023 Ranger Outings: A Year in Review, conducted by Connie Broadie
New or updated as of 20 September 2023
• Our monthly meeting: Saturday, 14 October 2023 - Section 0511 40th Anniversary Dinner and Meeting @ Maggiano's Little Italy, in the Tysons Galleria on Saturday evening, October 14th, 2023 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM., featuring our Internationally Famous Speaker - Susan Gorveatte, on "Audit Like a Jedi Knight"
• Section 0511 Call for Nominations: Join the 2024 Section 0511 Leadership Committee!!
New or updated as of 11 August 2023
• Our monthly meeting: Saturday, 16 September 2023 - Arlington National Cemetery: Ranger Outing Event
New or updated as of 07 August 2023
• Our monthly meeting: Wednesday, 9 August 2023 Report from the Welcome Committee Chair and Recertification Chair
• Save the date!! ASQ 0511 Northern Virginia Section 40th Anniversary Dinner and Meeting @ Maggiano's Little Italy, in the Tysons Galleria on Saturday evening, October 14th, 2023 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM., featuring our International Famous Speaker - Susan Gorveatte, on Jedi Auditing
• Section 0511 Call for Nominations: Join the 2024 Section 0511 Leadership Committee!!
New or updated as of 24 June 2023
• Our monthly meeting: Saturday, 15 July 2023 Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum: Ranger Outing Event
New or updated as of 5 June 2023
• Our monthly meeting: Wednesday, 14 June 2023 Latest Quality Trends from 2023 ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement by ASQ Section 0511 Conference Attendees
New or updated as of 2 May 2023
• Our monthly meeting: Wednesday, 10 May 2023 Community Matters & Classic Presentations: Environmental Data Quality by Ken Rapuano
New or updated as of 16 March 2023
• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! — Make it your home page on MyASQ
• A Message from the Voice of the Customer — Let's hear from you!
• Our monthly meeting: Saturday, 15 April 2023 Morven Park: Ranger Outing Organized by Carolyn Miller
New or updated as of 9 March 2023
• Section Leadership Committee Meeting Agenda — March 2023
• Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes — February 2023
• Treasurer's Report for February 2023
New or updated as of 8 March 2023
• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! — Make it your home page on MyASQ
• Our next Ranger Outing: Save the date: Saturday, 15 April 2023 The Morven Park
• 23 things I've learned about data quality in 23 years of consulting by 2023: Data quality is a difficult concept to quantify while still being vital enough to sabotage any project, strategic initiative, or even an entire business. What's going on with the quality of your data? Is the data well-suited for all of its uses? Is your data everywhere in operational databases, data warehouses, data lakes, master data management, etc.?
• Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes — Draft February 2023
• Quality Management Division Webinar: The Power of Games to Unleash Collaboration and Creativity in Education
• Your IT team s job is complex. In addition to managing technology, they need to deliver great quality of service, keep the lights on, and manage costs: What tools and processes empower your team to improve service delivery quality and speed, while also improving the employee experience in the new normal of remote and hybrid workplaces
New or updated as of 6 March 2023
• Our monthly meeting: Wednesday, 8 March 2023 Quality Matters Round Table: Agile and Quality Conducted by Charlotte Wild
New or updated as of 9 February 2023
• Meet the docents for our February meeting: Saturday, 11 February 2023 — The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Ranger Outing Event, Late Registration will close on Thursday, 9 February 2023 @ 12:30 PM.
• Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes — Final minutes from December 2022 and January 2023
• Recent job postings — Remote Quality control position
• Now Available — February 2023 Issue of the ASQ Insider
• Don't miss out on the year's biggest quality event! — Join ASQ at the 2023 World Conference on Quality & Improvement in Philadelphia, PA on May 7– 10.
• Memories — from 8 February 2017 Section and Board meeting
• Influencing Through the Screen — Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 5:00 pm Central/ 6:00 pm Eastern
• Google announces a new experimental conversational AI service — which will allow more customer feedback which will be combined with the company's own internal testing in order to provide users with heightened quality, safety, and groundedness in real-world information.
• The February issue of Quality Progress is now live! — This issue's theme: Lean and Six Sigma
• 2022 Testing in DevOps Report — The 2022 Testing in DevOps Report, a pulse check on how software development organizations are adopting DevOps and quality engineering on the path to digital transformation. Explore the full findings of the report, and see how testing leaders are planning to optimize their quality practices in the coming year, can enable their organization's DevOps journeys, and create better user experiences along the way.
• In just over two weeks: Join this Virtual Event: IMPROVE 2023 - Testing — Improve: Testing is a one-day virtual event that will cover best practices for continually improving your software testing, to ensure application quality doesn't suffer from today's need to release more quickly than ever.
• February Member Gift Bundle — This Month's Gift Bundle: CProblem Analysis Tools
• Quality and Risk Management: Are They Different? — All paths or activities lead to the center of things. This was literally true in the days of the Roman Empire, when all the empire's roads radiated out from the capital city, Rome. In other words, can we say “many different methods will produce the same result?”.
New or updated as of 3 February 2023
• February meeting: Saturday, 11 February 2023 — The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Ranger Outing Event, Standard Registration will close on Wednesday February 8, 2023 @ 12:30 PM.
New or updated as of 11 January 2023
• January meeting: Wednesday, 11 January 2023 — Chair Report & Professional Night: Path to Quality (continued) Conducted by Quality Professionals of ASQ Section 0511
• Our section email addresses are now in the format Position23@asq0511.org. All email links on the website are being updated, but if you come across one not in the proper format please be sure to update it in your email application!
• Treasurer's Report for December 2022
• Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes — Final minutes from from November 2022 and draft minutes for December
• 2023 predictions for software development — 2022 saw business and technology come together under the banner of value stream management, more uptake in microservices and other cloud-native technologies, and a greater emphasis on software quality and security. What will 2023 bring? These industry experts share their thoughts.
• ASQ EED Winter 2023 newsletter deadline 1/31/2023 — If you are interested in writing please submit by January 2023. It needed to be in energy or environmental area.
• January Member Gift Bundle — This Month's Gift Bundle: Career Success in 2023
• Don't wait until an interaction is over to coach your agents — Reduce average handle time, improve service quality, and enhance customer experience with Verint Real-Time Coaching.
• Six Ways Tool Integration Dramatically Improves Test Management Processes and QA — 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.
• Learn how to group alerts based on risk levels — Join this session to learn: How the detection lifecycle model helps speed up detection development while improving quality
• Implementing Identity Access Prioritization and Risk-Based Alerting for High-Fidelity Alerts — Join this session to learn: How the detection lifecycle model helps speed up detection development while improving quality
• A journey to modernizing applications — 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
• A Foundational Guide to SRE, SLOs, and SLIs — Close collaboration between development and operations teams, a belief in shared responsibility for outcomes, and commitment to quality and continuous improvement are all central DevOps themes
• Microsoft workers to form company's first union in the U.S. — The group comprises about 300 quality-assurance testers in the company's ZeniMax unit.
• The January issue of Quality Progress is now live! — This issue's theme: Risk Management
• 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 later this month.
• How Philips Healthcare accelerated development by up to 4X — Philips Healthcare is part of the Fortune 500 company Philips and is dedicated to advancing healthcare by connecting people, technology, and data. Their "Radiology Operations Command Centre" platform is a response to the need for optimized radiology services, high-quality imaging, better diagnostics, and improved patient care.
• 2023 Data Engineering Trends — Topics will include building and scaling data platforms, operationalizing distributed environments like data mesh, implementing data quality initiatives like data contracts, making the case for data with your Finance team, and other pressing considerations.
• It's Time To Rethink Supply Chain Risk Management — Under pressure to quickly identify new sources of supply, due diligence has, at times, been reduced, thereby increasing the likelihood of quality issues
• 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.
• Data Quality Best Practices — Discover the Hidden Potential of Dirty Data in Health Care
• Implement identity access prioritization and risk-based alerting for High-Fidelity Alerts — Join this session to learn: How the detection lifecycle model helps speed up detection development while improving quality, How to prioritize your identity and assets and dynamically adjust alert severity based on the prioritization, and How to group alerts based on risk levels
• Data transliteration is essential for ensuring data quality — Data transliteration tools are designed to tackle this potential problem by working to convert fields or characters from one alphabet into another without maintaining the underlying meaning of the words, focusing solely on the characters themselves.
• Trends in Data Management: A 2022 DATAVERSITY Report — there is an increasing maturity in the Data Management space as more organizations look to focus on Data Governance, Data Quality, and Data Security to ensure a solid data foundation for these efforts.
• Get access to 70+ conference sessions, case studies, keynotes, and the very best in Data Governance and Data Quality content from DGIQ 2022 — If you missed our December conference in Washington, D.C., you can still enjoy all the latest and greatest in Data Governance and Data Quality content and instruction
• Drive beyond process-level improvements and realize sustained organizational results as you network with peers and explore: — Supply Chain Strategies; Lean, Six Sigma and Leadership;; LSSC Masters; and Lean and Six Sigma Essentials
• Cross-RDBMS Code Quality Reports in Flyway — Flyway migration files, you may want to run some automated checks for style or 'code smells'. This article demonstrates how to run basic cross-RDBMS code quality checks using SQL Fluff. We analyze the results in PowerShell to produce reports and analytics on the number or types of issues found.
• Latest News From Your ASQ Quality Management Division! — Influencing Through the Screen
• Opportunity! Lean & Six Sigma Review Special Issue — Lean & Six Sigma Review is planning a special issue in August 2023 comprised of contributions from NextGen authors. Students and early-career quality professionals, submit your articles by 29 Jan
• World Conference on Quality & Improvement — Strengthening The Quality Foundation
• Bill Eastham provided several links to Baldrige presentations — They have outstanding presentations from leaders in the industry.
New or updated as of 4 January 2023
• Wednesday, 11 January 2023 — Chair Report & Professional Night: Path to Quality (continued) Conducted by Quality Professionals of ASQ Section 0511

Northern Virginia Section 0511 Archives


Archives 2022


New or updated as of 14 December 2022

• Wednesday, 14 December 2022! — Professional Night: Path to Quality Conducted by Quality Professionals of ASQ Section 0511 updated with WebEx link
• 2022 DevOps Tools Solution Guide — 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.
• Help deliver better digital experiences — Data intelligence is essential to deliver SLA commitments for a high-quality customer experience.
• Testing in 2023: Faster, Collaborative, and More Automation — How testing leaders are planning to optimize their quality practices in 2023.
• The Five Priorities for Every Data Strategy Today — The five common components of today's most successful enterprise data strategies: metadata quality; knowledge graphs; hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructure; in-time data processing and streaming; and environmental, social, and governance responsibilities.
• Getting a good fingerprint via Raman spectra — As applications for Raman spectroscopy expand into nontraditional areas such as medical diagnostics and food quality, the types of answers that can be obtained depends heavily on the quality of the spectra acquired.
• January's DMBoK and CDMP Preparation seminar! — This seminar will cover the following topics: An Introduction to Data Management, DMBoK, and Overview of CDMP designation, Data Governance and Data Quality Management
• Section Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes — Final minutes from from October 2022 and draft minutes for November
• Employment Links — Apprenticeship employment guide
• Recent job postings — Requirements Management Analyst at BAH
• The Future of Developer Enablement in Software Security — High-performing organizations empower developers with tools, training and resources to do high-quality work, with security top of mind.
• Ensure top laser performance — Measuring your laser system output helps ensure consistent, repeatable results. This leads to faster product development, increased productivity and standardized quality control.
• Reduce your compliance risk — Is your quality management program working? Unless you're reviewing all agent and digital interactions, you're missing important insights into the quality and compliance of your customer service. Screening a small percentage of calls may leave non-compliant interactions hidden and risk fines, lost business or worse. Verint can help.
• IL-PRF vs. AEC-Q200 -- do you know what you're getting? — Aerospace and defense electronics designers who are considering automotive standards for parts quality may not get what they expect.
• Everything your business does can be done better with trusted, quality data. — Making the right choice for a strategic, enterprise-wide data quality solution is a good place to start.
• The December issue of Quality Progress is now live — This issue's theme: Salary Survey
• The ASQ Government Division invites you to give back and show that quality practices can restore confidence in American elections. This message is being sent to all ASQ members within the United States. — We ask that you complete a 'voting process' satisfaction survey based on your recent election process experience – whether you voted or not. It only asks about the election process. There are no questions on political parties or partisan issues.
• December Member Gift Bundle — This Month's Gift Bundle: Year-End Recap
• The traditional security monitoring architecture has been troubling security teams with data silos, performance issues, and delays in retrieving archived data for years. — How the detection lifecycle model helps speed up detection development while improving quality
• Deliver high quality data with end-to-end, automated, and continuous testing — Bad data is costly – Gartner calculates that the average cost of bad data per company in the U.S. is a staggering $15 million.
• Introducing the Next Generation of AI for Code — Unit tests are a key enabler of fast delivery of high-quality code, but they're also a big distraction for developers
• Driving Quality Management Automation Success Through Robust Change Management — Learn how Meritor, a leading automotive and industrial manufacturer and subsidiary of Cummins Inc., successfully automated 15 core quality management processes including Corrective Action, Nonconformance, Supplier Quality, Document Control and Training Management.
• 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.
• ASQ EED Winter 2023 newsletter deadline 1/31/2023 — If you are interested in writing please submit by January 2023. It needed to be in energy or environmental area
• The Five Challenges of Maintaining Supplier Quality — Supply chains remain under pressure as a result of continued external shocks. 79% of organizations see managing supply chain quality as 'very' or 'somewhat' easy, according to recent research.
• Treasurer's Report for November 2022
New or updated as of 9 December 2022
• Wednesday, 14 December 2022! — Professional Night: Path to Quality Conducted by Quality Professionals of ASQ Section 0511
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
Includes:
• 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 webmaster23@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 Nominations23@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 webmaster23@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.

Archives 2021


New or updated as of 7 December 2021

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• Our section's December 2021 Meeting — Wednesday, 8 December 2021 – Professional Night: Path to Quality conducted by Quality Professionals of ASQ Section 0511
• Draft Board Meeting Minutes — November 2021
• The December issue of Quality Progress is now live! Each month, QP Live delivers the latest feature articles from Quality Progress right to your inbox.
• December Member Gift Bundle — Year-End Recap
• Code Quality Management Best Practices — This webinar covers the challenge of software quality, and looks at some pragmatic steps you can take to improve code quality
• Measure The Success of Your 2022 Plans — No matter how big your plans are for 2022, you'll need one thing to remain constant — your contact center's quality program. As you roll out new ideas, technologies, and performance improvement initiatives, it's the strength of your quality program that measures the success of your efforts
• ASQ is excited to share exciting news on behalf of ASQExcellence — the launch of the 2021 ASQE Insights on Excellence Executive Brief

New or updated as of 8 November 2021

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• Our section's November 2021 Meeting — Wednesday, 10 November 2021 – ASQ Divisions: Reliability and Risk Division (RRD). Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) — Part II presented by Michael Coleman
• John the Fairfax Federation in honoring our Past Chair, and current webmaster and emedia chair, Jeff Parnes, at its annual Citizen of the Year Reception — 14 November 2021
• Draft Board Meeting Minutes — October 2021
• The November issue of Quality Progress is now live! Each month, QP Live delivers the latest feature articles from Quality Progress right to your inbox.
• November Member Gift Bundle — Root Cause Analysis Tools and Methods
• Save the Date! — ASQ Quality Management Division Annual Meeting on Wednesday, 1 December 2021
• Welcome to World Quality Month! Whether you have spent the past couple days hanging banners for the celebration, or have been too busy identifying, prioritizing and implementing work solutions to notice — November is World Quality Month.
• Volunteers needed to work with the Senate Productivity and Quality Awards (SPQA) program — Please consider an opportunity to volunteer as an examiner for the Virginia Senate Productivity and Quality Award (SPQA) Program, your state Baldrige affiliate program.
• REGISTER NOW — November Instructor-led Certification Classes with Michael Stamp, Master Black Belt
• Explore Upcoming Virtual Courses! — Upskill with ASQ Virtual Learning
• Membership Report for November 2021

New or updated as of 13 October 2021

• Treasurer's Report for October 2021

New or updated as of 12 October 2021

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• Our section's October 2021 Meeting — Wednesday, 13 October 2021 – ASQ Divisions: Reliability and Risk Division (RRD). Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) presented by Michael Coleman
• Do you have photos from our section's visit last month to Mt Vernon? — If so, please send them to our emedia chair at emedia23@asq0511.org
• Automated Quality Management: Easing Work-from-Home Pain Managing today's contact center workforce with a mix of in-office, WFH and hybrid agents comes with a new set of challenges. Now more than ever, supervisors need full visibility into agent activities and the ability to quickly impact the quality of interactions.
• The ASQ Geographic Communities Council (GCC) is holding our yearly planning session October 29-30. Involving our member leaders, and gathering your input and feedback for 2022 Council planning is critical for our alignment and future success; which is why we kindly request that you attend our GCC meeting on October 30th. This is a wonderful opportunity for all RD's, DRD's, and Section Leaders to meet and discuss key GCC initiatives and goals.
• The Quality 4.0 Summit (25-27 Oct 21) allows you and your organization to:
  • Benefit from tips from today's experts, case study reviews and opportunities enabled by technologies including IoT, machine learning, data processing, AI and automation.
  • Examine complex digital transformation initiatives and small-scale, tiered applications with huge benefits you can use immediately to improve your work environment.
  • Explore the essential roles in leveraging new technologies to tackle all aspects of leadership, organizational culture, and customer care.
  • Each day of the 2021 ASQ Quality 4.0 Summit offers exclusive content, networking sessions, live Q&A's to help dive deep into digital transformation strategies.
• Upskill with the new Risk Management Specialized Credential Have you felt like you needed help making the right decision in your projects, or ever needed a modern and dynamic course to manage and strategize on taking risks for your business?
• October Member Gift Bundle Advanced Auditing Techniques and Tools
• The October issue of Quality Progress is now live! Each month, QP Live delivers the latest feature articles from Quality Progress right to your inbox.
• Board Meeting Minutes — July 2021
• Draft Board Meeting Minutes — September 2021
• You Are Invited! Attend Nov 13th's Joint Geographic & Technical Community Meeting This session will be held on Saturday, November 13th from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. CST.

New or updated as of 15 September 2021

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• Our section's September 2021 Meeting — Saturday, 18 September 2021 – George Washington's Mount Vernon: Ranger Outing Event
• If you're planning on attending our section's September 2021 Meeting this Saturday, 18 September, at George Washington's Mount Vernon, please bring a signed copy of the ASQ COVID-19 Liability Waiver and Release of Claims for each attendee.
• Upcoming ASQ Quality Management Division Conference — Dates: 21 – 23 September, Time: 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. CT each day
• Upcoming 2021 ASQ Quality 4.0 Summit — Explore and Elevate Digital Transformation – 25-27 October 2021. Digital Transformation is a key to modern success. To hone your skills, the 2021 ASQ Quality 4.0 Summit presents advances, advocacy, and adoption of a digital transformative journey. No matter where you are in your journey, the content and networking will help you excel in your organization, teams, and future in a quality-focused environment.
• 2021 Baldrige Fall Conference Agenda — October 21 & 22 — Navigating forward. destination excellence
• Register for the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Quality — Friday, 8 October 2021
• September ASQ Insider — Your inside scoop to all things ASQ
• Draft Board Meeting Minutes — August 2021
• Board Meeting Agenda — September 2021
• September ASQ Insider — Your inside scoop to all things ASQ

New or updated as of 8 September 2021

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• Our section's September 2021 Meeting — Saturday, 18 September 2021 &mdash George Washington's Mount Vernon: Ranger Outing Event

New or updated as of 11 August 2021

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• Our section's August 2021 Meeting — Wednesday, 11 August 2021 — Quality Matters Round Table: ASQ Sections
• Treasurer's Report for August 2021
• July 2021 Meeting Slides —Quality Matters Round Table: Plans and Process Descriptions moderated by Michael Coleman
• Navigating Forward. Destination Excellence — Baldrige Virtual Fall Conference: October 21-22, 2021
• Board Meeting Minutes — July 2021
• The August issue of Quality Progress is now live! —Each month, QP Live delivers the latest feature articles from Quality Progress right to your inbox.
• Draft Board Vision Minutes June/July 2021

New or updated as of 15 July 2021

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• Our section's August 2021 Meeting — Wednesday, 11 August 2021 —Quality Matters Round Table: ASQ Sections
• Membership Report for July 2021

New or updated as of 14 July 2021

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• Our section's July 2021 Meeting — Wednesday, 14 July 2021 —Quality Matters Round Table: Plans and Process Descriptions
• Board Meeting Agenda — July 2021
• Treasurer's Report for July 2021
• Meet the Our Current Section Leadership Committee

New or updated as of 12 July 2021

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• Our section's July 2021 Meeting —Wednesday, 14 June 2021 —Quality Matters Round Table: Plans and Process Descriptions
• Draft Board Meeting Minutes —June 2021
• June 2021 Meeting Slides —Quality Matters Round Table: ASQ Certifications presented Vladimir Nesterovich
• Which Software Quality Metrics Matter? —Software quality metrics help you to better understand how reliable, safe, and secure your code is likely to be.
• WCQI Call for Reviewers —open through August 2nd
• Lean and Six Sigma Conference Call for Reviewers —open through August 4th
• Take the QP Salary Survey —open through July 20th
• ASQ to Reinstate In Person Events and Meetings
• Billhighway Anywhere Training — July 13th
• How can Technical Communities contribute to support TCC's initiatives on Quality 4.0? (TCC sponsored) —July 22nd
• Improving Deployment of Your Strategic Plan (GCC Sponsored) —August 7th
• The ASQ Performance Excellence Program (PEP) celebrates the accomplishments of ASQ member units. —The PEP 2021 Program Outline, describing the recognition criteria for 2021, has been posted in the myASQ Member Leader Community Resource location for Member Leaders and we invite you to become familiar with the information in the Outline.
• The July issue of Quality Progress is now live! —Each month, QP Live delivers the latest feature articles from Quality Progress right to your inbox.
• UPCOMING WEBINAR 8 Steps to Create a Successful Virtual Training Strategy —Thursday, August 26, 2021
• July Member Gift Bundle —Risk Management Resources and Tools
• Be sure to submit your session ideas for the 2021 Data Governance & Information Quality Conference (DGIQ) —December 6-10, 2021
• Juran Global Instructor-led programs starting on July 28th —Why should you enroll?

New or updated as of 7 June 2021

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• Our section's June 2021 Meeting — Wednesday, 9 June 2021 — Roundtable: ASQ Certifications
• Draft Board Meeting Minutes —May 2021
• Starting July 1, 2021 ASQ will resume in person meetings and events, in accordance with local ordinances and laws surrounding gatherings.
• Recent job postings — Sr. QA Design Engineer
• 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.
• June Member Gift —ASQ Benefits and Resources

New or updated as of 26 May 2021

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• Our section's June 2021 Meeting —Wednesday, 9 June 2021 —Roundtable: ASQ Certifications
• April 2021 Meeting Slides —Aligning Quality & Expectations in Software Development: A Human Centered Approach presented Michael Chupeco
• May 2021 Meeting Slides —Quality Matters: Questions on Questions presented Vladimir Nesterovich
• Upcoming QMD Webinar Series Reminder - Driving Process Management Culture Through 3 Vital Questions —Three sessions:
• Where are you putting your focus? Shifting problems to outcomes —2 June 2021
• How are you relating? Shifting drama to empowerment —16 June 2021
• What actions are you taking? Shifting from reacting to creating —21 July 2021
• The Performance Excellence Program (PEP) Committee — is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 PEP Awards
• Bill Eastham, our membership Chair, recommends Professional Development for Digital Accessibility: A Needs Assessment —A great read on Quality and education/training/development

New or updated as of 19 May 2021

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• Our section's June 2021 Meeting —Wednesday, 9 June 2021 —Save the date!
• Designing "High Impact" Experiments by Shari Kraber, tonight, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 sponsored by ASQ Section 0904 - East Central Indiana as recommended by Bill Eastham, our Membership chair and a twice past chair
• WCQI Registration Closes today, 19 May 2021
• Assess and Improve your Healthcare QMS with basic quality tools, 20 May 2021
• ASQ has a great catalog of e-learning courses, specifically around Six Sigma, Are you looking to advance your process analysis & improvement skills but have limited time? They can relate, but can also help!
• ASQ's 75th Anniversary: Join the Celebration! Looking for a great way to thank a fellow member or quality team for their support, or to simply show off your pride in ASQ?
• Membership Report for May 2021
• Treasurer's Report for May 2021
• ASQ offers courses for real world situations Welcome To ASQ'S Virtual Courses
• Call for Presentations: Joint ASQ Quality Management & Software Division's Fall 2021 Virtual Conference
• Latest News From the ASQ Quality Management Division

New or updated as of 12 May 2021

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• May 2021 Meeting —Wednesday, 12 May 2021 — Quality Matters: Questions on Questions Presented by Vladimir Nesterovich, ASQ Section 0511 Chair
• Draft Board Vision Minutes April 2021
• Draft Board Meeting Minutes April 2021
• Board Agenda May 2021

New or updated as of 14 April 2021

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• April 2021 Meeting —Wednesday, 14 April 2021 — Design Thinking, Alignment, and a Human Centered Approach to Quality Presented by Michael Chupeco, Founder/Principal at Chupeco Consulting, LLC
• Registration is now open for the ASQ Technical Communities Council and Geographic Communities Council Joint Spring Virtual Meeting — on Saturday, April 24th, from 9:00 a.m. CDT to 11:00 a.m. CDT to discuss Building the Future.
• Theseus Professional Services, LLC —offers virtual training in ASME NQA-1 and Supply Chain Processes for Counterfeit, Fraudulent, and Suspect Items within the Nuclear Industry
• ASQ Data Privacy Training for Member Leaders is Required —To access the training, go to ASQ.org and log into your account
• April and March 21 Membership Committee Reports
• Draft Board Minutes February and March 2021

Archives 2020


New or updated by 11 November 2020

• November Membership Committee Report

New or updated by 9 November 2020

• November 2020 Meeting —Wednesday, 11 November 2020 — Coming Climate Crisis – Whatcha gonna do when it comes for you? Richard Emory, EPA Environmental Enforcement Attorney (retired) and Tutorial: Vulnerability Assessments and CO2 Mitigation Plans David Saunders, Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN)
• Draft Board Minutes 14 October 2020
• October Membership Committee Report
• Welcome to World Quality Month! We are proud to showcase the vital role quality professionals have in achieving excellence through quality and the positive impact quality has made in our organizations and communities around the world. Join us all through November in celebrating the global quality community with World Quality Month (WQM)!
• A Message From The PEP Committee As member units wrap up their 2020 activities and start thinking about executing their 2021 business and budget plans, the Performance Excellence Program (PEP) Committee would like to provide some updates about the 2021 PEP.
• November 19th ASQ Atlanta Section Online Meeting Strategy and Tools for Transformation Leaders: Align strategy, culture, customer experience, human performance and success presented by Tony Belilovskiy
• November 2020 Meeting Slides —Coming Climate Crisis – Whatcha gonna do when it comes for you? presented Richard Emory, EPA Environmental Enforcement Attorney (retired) and Tutorial: Vulnerability Assessments and CO2 Mitigation Plans presented by David Saunders, Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN)
• ASQ's Medical Mondays Each Monday focuses on a theme, allowing attendees to learn methods and skills which, over the four sessions, tie together proven concepts that healthcare leaders and subject matter experts use to make improvements and get results.
• November's Issue of Quality Progress Is Live!
• November Member Gift Bundle —New Resources and Strategies for Managing Quality in 2021
• ASQ Quality Management Division Upcoming Webinars! —Managing for Quality Series with Dr. Gregory Watson
• VIRTUAL Fall Conference Forum: Excellence in Extraordinary Times — Wednesday, November 18th, 2020

New or updated by 13 October 2020

• October 2020 Meeting —Wednesday, 14 October 2020 — Quality in Finance presented by Rob Chen, Vice President, Civilian Operations
• November 2020 Meeting —Wednesday, 11 November 2020 — Coming Climate Crisis – Whatcha gonna do when it comes for you? Richard Emory, EPA Environmental Enforcement Attorney (retired) and Tutorial: Vulnerability Assessments and CO2 Mitigation Plans David Saunders, Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN)
• 2021 GCC Election Results For Region & BoD Representatives, Chair, & Vice-Chair
• Volunteers needed to work with the Senate Productivity and Quality Awards (SPQA) program
• SAVE THE DATE! ASQ's Geographic Communities Council and Technical Communities Council are hosting a Joint Fall Virtual Meeting on Saturday, October 24th, from 10:00am CDT to 12:00pm CDT
• October's Issue of Quality Progress Is Live!
• SPQA Forum, Programs, Solicitations and Deadlines
• GCC Member Leader Training Registration
• October Member Gift: Problem-Solving Strategies, Tools, and Methods
• ASQ Diversity and Inclusion Survey
• Superior Supplier Quality Management Training

New or updated by 9 September 2020

• September 2020 Meeting —Wednesday, 9 September 2020 — A Call for Leaders
• The 7 Cs of Data Quality —Data Quality today is, first-and-foremost, a bottom-line issue that businesses must address to stay competitive
• 7 Data Quality Principles Outlined For All
• SEO QA - What is it and why should you implement it? —Agile engineering teams need to focus on delivering high quality code at pace. However, ensuring releases don't negatively impact search engine optimization (SEO) often sits way down the priority list.
• The Era of Intelligent Testing —Software testing has not kept pace with advances in software development over the past 10 years. Modern quality assurance (QA) groups struggle to play their role in a world of continuous delivery, leading to more defects in production, low QA morale and excessive testing overhead.
• A Guide to Leveraging IoT-Based Solutions —Whatever stage a company is at today, IoT-based solutions can unlock data insights that will optimize production, improve product quality and increase customer satisfaction.
• Improve quality in DevOps pipelines with Agile test management —DevOps requires that testing teams build continuous quality into the DevOps pipeline, which for many teams represents a significant evolution of current and legacy processes.
• Notice of 2020 ASQ's Annual Meeting (Virtual) —The Annual Meeting of the American Society for Quality ("the Society") shall be called to order at 11:30 AM Central Time, on Monday, September 28, 2020,
• WCQI 2021 Update —ASQ is currently working on a plan to deliver a dynamic 2021 World Conference on Quality and Improvement experience in May.
• ASQ GCC Wants Your Input - Take the Member Leader Training Survey —Please help us prepare our new member leaders for their future roles by sharing your experience in a survey. Their team is working on the upcoming Member Leader Virtual Training and would like your contributions for the Member Leader Roadmap.
• Continue Your Career with Innovative Virtual Courses on Auditing, Six Sigma, and Standards —For more than 70 years, quality professionals have enrolled in ASQ classroom training for a career boost. Experience the same course quality in a virtual setting. Do your career a favor and give it a boost with these upcoming virtual courses.
• 2020 Award Winners Cite Value of SPQA —Virginia SPQA has pivoted, as have many of you, to its new normal, operating virtually. After completing our 2020 award process with all due diligence in a virtual world, they are pleased to share with you the 2020 award winners.
• Treasurer's Report for August 2020
• Draft Board Minutes 8 July 2020
• Board Vision Meeting Notes 29 August 2020 (draft)

New or updated as of 11 August 2020

• August 2020 Meeting —Wednesday, 12 August 2020 —Quality of Life: An Integrated System presented by Beth Leanard

New or updated as of 7 July 2020

• July 2020 Meeting —Wednesday, 8 July 2020 – How Configuration Management Works with Quality to Ensure Mission Success presented by Jeffrey Parnes
• Draft Board Minutes 10 June 2020
• ASQ Classroom Courses Set for This Fall —In addition to our robust virtual offerings, we are planning to resume classroom courses for September, October, and November in Portland, OR; Austin, TX; and San Diego, CA.

New or updated as of 3 July 2020

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• July 2020 Meeting —Wednesday, 8 July 2020 – Save the date!
• Certification Spotlight: Calibration Technician —Are you interested in building processes that reduce risk associated with measurement, regulatory requirements, and international standardization?
• Make the Most of Your Membership —Volunteer Opportunities, Webinars, Quality Progress, and More!
• Submission Deadline Extended! —As with many of us, your schedule is almost–if not completely–up in the air these days. For that reason, the Lean and Six Sigma Conference call for papers submission has been extended to July 6, 2020. Take the extra few days and submit your presentation proposal
• Continue Your Learning Development Plan with ASQ Virtual Events —With the overwhelmingly positive response from WCQI Virtual, ASQ is pleased to announce additional virtual events for your continuous learning plan through 2020.
• July Member Gift Bundle —E-Auditing and Auditing Fundamentals
• A Gentle Nudge From QP—Salary Survey Awaits! —As a thanks for participating, you can enter a drawing for a chance to win a $50 Amazon gift card after finishing the survey. Responses must be received by Monday, July 20, at 11:59 p.m. CT.

New or updated as of 10 June 2020

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• Certification Schedule for August and September 2020
• Logon information for the June 2020 Meeting —Wednesday, 10 June 2020 – Drug Development and Review Process presented by our very own Seema Garg, Placements Chair
• June 2020 Meeting Slides —Drug Development and Review Process presented by Seema Garg
• Share Your New Opportunities for a New Decade —Present at the 2021 Lean and Six Sigma Conference, February 28 —March 2, 2021. Submission deadline is June 29.
• June's Issue of Quality Progress Is Live —Each month, QP Live delivers Quality Progress' latest feature articles right to your inbox.
• Prepare for Your Certification or Gain Additional Training with Convenient Virtual Courses! —Space is limited, so register today to reserve your spot!
• June Member Gift Bundle —Data Quality and Analysis
• Organizational Learning Webinar on 16 June 2020 —Triple-loop Experience

New or updated as of 30 May 2020

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• Book Now! Avoid the rush! —Your ASQ Recertification Journal
• June 2020 Meeting —Wednesday, 10 June 2020 – Drug Development and Review Process presented by our very own Seema Garg, Placements Chair
• Unbreaking QA in DevOps Transformations: Thursday, 18 June —Applying QA best practices to every phase of application development has the most impact on customer and employee happiness
• Making the Most of Your Membership —Certification Exam Remote Proctoring
• WCQI Virtual On-Demand Recordings —Through 1 June!
• Certification Spotlight —Quality Inspector
• Video Quality Assurance in A Remote-PHY World —How can you ensure quality of experience while also keeping up with user demand via non-traditional services like OTT and vMVPD
• ASQ Virtual Courses Online, Convenient, Instructor-led! —ISO 13485:2016 Internal Auditor, Root Cause Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, and ISO 13485:2016 Lead Auditor
• Draft Board Minutes 13 May 2020

New or updated as of 12 May 2020

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• Login information for the May 2020 Meeting —Wednesday, 13 May 2020 – Quality Forward – the Decision to Join presented by William “Bill” A. Eastham, Jr
• May 2020 Meeting Slides —Quality Forward – the Decision to Join presented by William “Bill” A. Eastham, Jr
• See How Leading QMS Software Vendors Stack Up —Find ratings of 15+ vendors in the 2020 G2 Crowd Report
• Purchase WCQI Virtual On-Demand Recordings for a Low Price!
• View highlights from this year's WCQI Virtual event!
• The Spring Edition 2020 Of The Quality Management Forum Is Now Available! —Welcome to the Spring 2020 issue of QMF. This is the first ever completely electronic QMD Forum. The issue includes three articles across the spectrum of quality management topics.
• Reminder of Upcoming QMD Webinar —Strategy Management with a Strategy Map and its Balanced Scorecard – Thursday May 14, 2020 at 6:00 pm

New or updated as of 8 May 2020

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• May 2020 Meeting —Wednesday, 13 May 2020 – Quality Forward – the Decision to Join presented by William “Bill” A. Eastham, Jr
• May's Issue of Quality Progress Is Live!
• Upcoming ASQ Certification Dates! —Testing Windows: 1 – 31 July and 1 – 31 August 2020
• May Membership Committee Report

New or updated as of 4 May 2020

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• May 2020 Meeting —Wednesday, 13 May 2020 – save this date for a virtual meeting on TBD
• Poll closes Tuesday, 5 May! —Should our May 2020 Meeting Start at 6 or 7 PM? Take our poll!
• Draft Board Minutes 8 April 2020
• Section is looking for availability of conference facilities to hold meetings when "normal life" resumes - contact our Arrangements Chair
• ASQ E-Learning Sale EXTENDED Through May 10!
• May Member Gift Bundle Risk Management

New or updated as of 27 April 2020

• May 2020 Meeting —Wednesday, 13 May 2020 – save this date for a virtual meeting on TBD
• Should our May 2020 Meeting Start at 6 or 7 PM? Take our poll!
• Call For Proposals —Building a Better Quality 4.0 Blueprint
• Quality Management Division: —Complimentary Webinars
• Free ASQ WCQI Virtual Event for Members —Register today to secure your place in the WCQI Virtual event on Wednesday, May 6, 2020. Inspiring live broadcasts of keynote speakers, on-demand recordings, and myASQ discussions will help you continue your professional development and realize your impact as a quality profession
• New Performance Excellence Program — The ASQ Performance Excellence Program (PEP) celebrates the accomplishments of ASQ member units. The PEP recognizes member unit performance that reinforces ASQ's position as the thought leader in quality and expands ASQ offerings to members and customers. The program builds on ASQ Society-wide strategic objectives, minimum operating requirements for MUs, and the new tools and processes introduced throughout ASQ over the past 2 years–for example, BillHighway and myASQ communities.
• ASQ Virtual Courses — Online, Convenient, Instructor-led
• Certification Spotlight —Certified Quality Auditor
• Making the most of your Membership —Special COVID-19 Response – New Benefits Available
• Online Learning With Juran
• Spring Training —E-Learning Savings Through April 30!
• TechFocus eNewsletter —Calibration

New or updated as of 7 April 2020

• Northern Virginia Section's MyASQ Community page is now active! —Make it your home page on MyASQ
• Protecting Product Quality through Supplier Management —Wednesday, April 8, 2020 | 2:00 PM ET
• ASQ Announces Member Benefits Extension and WCQI Virtual Event
• All ASQ-sponsored face-to-face meetings of any type, e.g., dinner meetings, plant tours, special interest group meetings, leadership team meetings, round-table discussions, forums, or another type of meetings between now and September 1, are canceled.
• April Membership Committee Report
• April Member Gift Bundle —ASQ Benefits and Resources
• Special ASQ E-Learning Savings Through April 30!
• SPQA is working to help in this time of need —Support One Another – Time for Leadership
• ASQ Section 509 - General Membership Meeting —Virtual meeting on 16 April: Capture and Deploy the Voice of the Customer
• Color Tolerancing 101 —Understand Color Tolerances like an Expert on April 23, 2020
• Education Committee Meeting —17 March 2020
• April's Issue of Quality Progress Is Live!
• Apply or refer someone you know for our section's scholarship —deadline 30 April 2020
• March 2020 Meeting Slides —Approval Testing - Pass, Fail or Hope? presented by David Kane

New or updated as of 5 April 2020

• April 2020 Meeting —Wednesday, 8 April 2020 – Join for a virtual meeting on Corona Virus—Covid–19 and Quality Processes
• Draft Board Minutes 11 March 2020
• The Northern Shenandoah Valley Section will host two FREE virtual professional development opportunities in the next few weeks. Registration is required to receive the links. Certificates of attendance will be provided afterwards for those needing certification points.

New or updated as of 10 March 2020

• Upcoming ASQ Certification Dates! —Testing Windows: 1 – 17 May and 5 – 21 June 2020
• National Baldrige Conference Registration —There is still time to register for the 32nd Annual Quest for Excellence^® Conference featuring the 2019 Award Recipients, 17 Former Recipients, and much, much more.
• Recent position posting —Process Engineers

New or updated as of 2 March 2020

• March 2020 Meeting —Wednesday, 11 March 2020 – Join us at On the Border in Reston to hear David Kane speak on Approval Testing —Pass, Fail or Hope?
• February Meeting Slides —Root Cause Analysis (RCA) —Overview and discussion how we can implement this thought process? presented by Mike Coleman
• Draft Board Minutes 12 February 2020
• Treasurer's Report for Feb 2020
• March Member Gift Bundle —Achieving and Sustaining Excellence
• Upcoming ASQ Elections
• Recent position posting
• ASQ Audit, Certification, and Future Growth —Clarification on ASQ's entity, ASQE
• Recent position posting
• 2020 WCQI Conference Training Courses
• Make the Most of Your Membership With Available Scholarships
• SPQA Can Help You Move the Needle. the Baldrige Performance Excellence Framework (BPEF) has proven to make a difference for organizations of all types, regardless of size and sector.
• Quest for Excellence Conference, learn how your organization can achieve outstanding performance at the premier showcase of current and former Baldrige Award recipients March 24-27, 2020
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Qualify to teach the Lean Six Sigma methodologies, tools and applications in all functions and levels of the company.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification & Online Course, Juran's accredited Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training certification program blends self-paced online learning with instructor-led live webinars and mentorship from a Juran certified coach. It will help you solve deep-rooted problems that exist in your organization.
• February Meeting Slides —Updated with links to Presentation Handouts: Root Cause Analysis (RCA) —Overview and discussion how we can implement this thought process? presented by Mike Coleman

New or updated as of 11 February 2020

• IRS audit of ASQ has been closed —their 501(c)(3) status has been confirmed for the year 2017
• Treasurer's Report for Feb 2020
• February 2020 Meeting —Wednesday, 12 February 2020 – Join us at Daniel O'Connell's in Alexandria to hear Mike Coleman speak on Root Cause in the Fitzgerald Room (with instructions on how to access the Fitzgerald Room)
• January 2020 Meeting Slides —Ones to Watch presented by Michael Novak
• February Meeting Slides —Root Cause Analysis (RCA) —Overview and discussion how we can implement this thought process? presented by Mike Coleman
• 28th Annual ISO 9000 & Audits World —ISO Conference Brochure Available to Download Now
• Board Vision Meeting Notes 26 January 2020 (draft)
• Draft Board Minutes 8 January 2020

New or updated as of 6 February 2020

• February 2020 Meeting —Wednesday, 12 February 2020 – Join us at Daniel O'Connell's in Alexandria to hear Mike Coleman speak on Root Cause
• With liberties taken from the lyrics of the Who's song "Won't Get Fooled Again" from their 1971 Album, "Who's Next": Meet the new Section Leadership Committee, not the same as the old Section Leadership Committee
• February's Issue of Quality Progress Is Live!
• 2020 Strategic Updates from ASQ: On January ASQ announced the formation of a new 501(c)(6) entity to house certification and organizational membership activities
• Upcoming ASQ Certification Dates! Testing Windows: 3 – 19 April and 1 – 17 May 2020
• February Member Gift Bundle: Powerful Tools for Continuous Improvement
• The Winter 2019 ASQ Quality Management Forum Is Here!
• ASQ is offering its premier lineup of Lean Six Sigma classroom training two more times this year.
• ASQ's 2020 Lean and Six Sigma Conference is a hot ride on the road of your career —one of the best ways to accelerate your skills, knowledge, and connections in the quality industry.
• 19th Annual Lean Six Sigma World Conference —Conference at a Glance
• Earn the Role of Future Quality Leader: Enrollment Ends March 6!
• 2020 World Conference on Quality and Improvement! Get Ready to Join Your Peers!
• A Message From the Geographic Communities Council Chair There are five key areas that I'd like to focus on: myASQ Finance, myASQ, Contract Management, Intellectual Property and SharePoint
• Draft Board Minutes 8 January 2020
• Board Vision Meeting Agenda 8 January 2020
• Certification Spotlight: Six Sigma Black Belt —Testing Window: 6 – 22 March 2020, Application Deadline: 7 February 2020
• 28th Annual ISO 9000 & Audits World —Conference at a Glance
• The RestoreASQ Group provides a way to share information and organize to Restore ASQ to being the Member-led Society it was intended to be and restore support and funding to ASQ Divisions and Sections in their mission to serve ASQ Members

New or updated as of 7 January 2020

• January 2020 Meeting —Wednesday, 8 January 2020 —Join us at the Tysons Corner Olive Garden to heard Mike Novak speak on Ones to Watch
• February 2020 Meeting —Wednesday, 12 February 2020 —Join us at Daniel O'Connell's in Alexandria to hear Mike Coleman speak on Root Cause
• Section Leadership Committee updates for 2020
• Section meeting dates for 2020
• Secrets To Improve Job Prospects: Tips on being a great candidate for employment.
• 2020 Community Leadership Institute will take place on Sunday, May 3, beginning at 7:30 a.m. with the Fellows and Society Awardees and Medalists joining for a lunch program

Archives 2019


New or updated as of 25 December 2019

• January 2020 Meeting —Wednesday, 8 January 2019 —Join us at the Tysons Corner Olive Garden

New or updated as of 14 November 2019

• December 2019 Meeting —Wednesday, 11 December 2019 —Join us at PJ Skiddoos for our holiday social

New or updated as of 11 November 2019

• November 2019 Meeting —Wednesday, 13 November 2019 —Check out the Harbour Grille menu for our meeting
• November 2019 Meeting Slides —Finally, a KM Standard! presented by Michael Novak
• ASQ November Member Gift Bundle —Competitive Benchmarking and Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
• Schedule of upcoming Certification Preparation Programs By ASQ
• ASQ Scheduled Certification Examination Dates: Testing Window: January 3-19, 2020 – Application Deadline: December 6, 2019, and Testing Window: February 7-23, 2020 – Application Deadline: January 10, 2020
• Registration Open —Baldrige Criteria Training Richmond, VA – Jan 7, 2020
• Happy World Quality Month! ASQ is excited to join this worldwide celebration of the industry and individuals who strive to provide excellence through quality. Visit www.asq.org/wqm to download exclusive content, learn how to share World Quality Month with your organization, and even find out which quality guru you are! Be sure to stay tuned and share your quality stories with the hashtag #WorldQualityMonth.
• November's Issue of Quality Progress Is Live!
• Draft Board Minutes 9 October 2019
• Recent Membership Committee Reports

New or updated as of 30 October 2019

• Chair's Message: Consider Serving on our Section's Leadership Team
• Register for either the ISO 9000 & Audits World Conference (ISO) or the Lean Six Sigma World Conference (LSS) in March 2020. Super Saver deadline is 11/30/2019; Early Registration Deadline is January 31, 2020
• ASQ Lean and Six Sigma Conference: Applying Lean and Six Sigma For Organizational Excellence February 23 – 25, 2020 | Phoenix, AZ, Early bird discounts apply through January 20, 2020.
• ASQ Scheduled Certification Examination Dates Testing Window: December 6 – 22, 2019, Application Deadline: November 8, 2019
• November is World Quality Month and ASQ is here to help celebrate YOU!
• Show Your Passion for Quality: Invite a Colleague to Join ASQ and Save $25! For each referral that joins ASQ as a Professional member with discount code REFER25, you'll be entered in a drawing to win a free registration to the 2020 Lean and Six Sigma Conference or World Conference on Quality and Improvement—your choice!
• The ASQ Geographic Communities Council cordially invites you to attend two Geographic Communities Virtual Member Leader Training sessions on Saturday, November 16 and Saturday, December 7. Each session will be hosted through WebEx and are scheduled from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Central Standard Time.
• ASQ Courses. Designed by Subject Matter Experts. Taught by Quality Instructors. Leading to Outstanding Results.
• Cincinnati, OH —November 18 – 22, 2019:
  • Introduction to Supplier Management
  • ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor Training with IATF–Exemplar Global Certified 16949:2016 Automotive Emphasis
  • ISO 14001:2015 Lead Auditor Training (Environmental Management System Training)–Exemplar Global Certified
  • Quality/Engineering Tools for Supplier Management
• New Orleans, LA —December 9 – 13, 2019, Register by Nov. 3, 2019, save 15%!
  • Software Quality Engineering
  • ISO 13485:2016 Internal Auditor (Medical Devices Quality Management System Training)–Exemplar Global Certified
  • Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
  • Cost of Quality: Finance for Continuous Improvement
• Long Beach, CA —January 13 – 17, 2020, Register by Dec. 8, 2019, save 15%!
  • Black Belt/Quality Engineering Statistics
  • ISO 27001:2013 Lead Auditor
  • ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor (Quality Management System Training)–Exemplar Global Certified
  • Supplier Quality Professional: An Introduction
• SPQA is excited about the number of applicants entering its 2020 Award cycle. We are now seeking volunteer applicants to the 2020 Board of Examiners who will be trained to conduct the examination of an applicant based on the Baldrige Criteria. Applicants must apply each year they wish to be considered. New and returning examiners must complete the online application. The deadline to apply is December 1, 2019.
• Recent resume postings

New or updated as of 11 October 2019

• Save the Dates!
  • November 2019 Meeting - Wednesday, 13 November 2019 —ISO 40301, Knowledge Management Systems Requirements presented by Michael Novak at the Harbour Grille, Woodbridge
  • December 2019 Meeting - Wednesday, 11 December 2019 —Annual Holiday Party at P.J. Skidoos, Fairfax
• September 2019 Meeting Slides -- Lockheed Martin: Priority on Quality presented by Neil Golke and Northrup Grumman: Deep Diving Supplier Zero Defect Plans presented by Julia Price

New or updated as of 7 October 2019

• October 2019 Meeting - Wednesday, 9 October 2019 —Latest Quality Trends from 2019 ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement presented by Barbara McCullough and Cyndi Reichardt at Houlihan's Springfield
• Section meeting dates for last quarter 2019 and 1st half 2020
• Two days remaining to Submit a Proposal – for either the 2020 Lean Six Sigma World Conference or ISO 9000 & Audits World Conference (ISO); Proposal Submission Deadline: October 11, 2019
• The Quality Show Exam & Prep Course Preparatory Course & Certification Exam for Portable 3D Metrologists & CMM Metrologists, Tuesday, October 22
• SPQA 2020 Award Cycle Solicitation due Oct 16, 2019.
• Draft Board Minutes 11 September 2019
• Certification Schedule for December 2019 and January 2020

New or updated as of 8 September 2019

• Check out the delicious menu for our meeting at Maggiano's this week
• Deadline to register for this month's meeting is Noon Monday, 9 September —Doors open at 6:15 Wednesday evening
• Draft Board Minutes 14 August 2019
• Draft Board Vision Minutes 28 July 2019
• Ignite Testing Transformation: A Roadshow for Quality Leaders -- September 19, 2019 | 5 - 8 p.m. ET
• ASQ Section 509 - General Membership Meeting at That's Amore Restaurant on September 19, 2019: Presentation —A Multi-Media Quality Presentation for Steam Coffin Captain Moses Rogers and The Steamship Savannah Break the Barrier
• 2019 Minitab Insights Conference, a user-dedicated annual event being held this October 8-11 at the Lansdowne Resort & Spa in Leesburg, VA. The conference brings together leading industry professionals and experts in data analysis and quality to discuss using Minitab's latest suite of tools to provide real solutions, share best practices and network.
• SPQA is co-hosting the Baldrige 2019 Fall Conference, Tune Into Excellence. It will be held October 24 and 25 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, TN.
• The 74th World Conference on Quality and Improvement invites you to submit proposals for presentation in Columbus, OH. Deadline Extended to Sunday, September 8, 2019. Share your real-world examples that demonstrate best practices, tested solutions, and proven results to an audience representing an array of countries, background, and industries. Your quality peers are ready to learn from thought leaders like you!

New or updated as of 2 September 2019

• Recent job postings -- Systems Engineer with Serious Quantitative Process Improvement Experience (TS/SCI)
• This year is coming to a close. What better time to sign up for the next step in your quality career? Sign up today for ASQ's Black Belt Transition training in Phoenix. Check Out the Early Bird Rate. Ends September 8!
• Time to Move to the Head of the Quality Class. Select One or More of These Convenient, Cost-Effective E-Learning Courses

New or updated as of 19 August 2019

• Our Section is Excited to Present to two Quality Experts to discuss Supplier Quality at our September 2019 Meeting - Wednesday, 11 September 2019
  • Advancing Quality Aligned with Future Visions of Space presented by Neil Golke, Quality Engineering Sr. Manager, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company at Maggiano's Tyson's Corner
  • Drive for Excellence, Northrop Grumman's Approach to Zero Defect Planning presented by Julia Price, Supplier Quality Manager, Navigation & Maritime Systems Division, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems Sector

New or updated as of 12 August 2019

• Three High Demand Workshops to be Featured at Baldrige Fall Conf, Oct 24-25
• Only a Few More Days to Submit Your Proposal for the 2020 Lean and Six Sigma Conference Phoenix, AZ February 24 - 25, 2020. All proposals must be submitted to ASQ by August 14, 2019.
• Pat Nugent, Vice President of Product Management for Mahr Inc., will deliver a keynote address at the ASQ Inspection Division conference on Tuesday, September 24, 2019. The conference will be held at the Crowne Plaza Louisville Airport Expo Center in Louisville, KY.
• Call for Papers - 2020 Lean Six Sigma / ISO 9000 & Audits World Conference. Proposal Submission Deadline is October 11, 2019
• One-Day Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Training & Certification Program Friday August 16th, 2019 in Fairfax, VA
• The 63rd annual Fall Technical Conference (FTC) will be held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD on September 25-27, 2019.
• Draft Board Minutes 10 July 2019
• ASQ Team Excellence Award: Join ASQ's Team Excellence Award Program and See How Your Team Compares to the Best! Team Entry Materials Due: September 9, 2019

New or updated as of 7 August 2019

• Save the Date! September 2019 Meeting - Wednesday, 11 September 2019 — Advancing Quality Aligned with Future Visions of Space presented by Neil Golke, Quality Engineering Sr. Manager, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company at Maggiano's Tyson's Corner
• Baldrige Criteria Training – Norfolk, VA - Sept 20

New or updated as of 9 July 2019

• Call for Region 5 Director Nominations, Sections nominate and elect Region Directors to guide and mentor sections within the regions, for participation in the Geographic Communities Council, and for the opportunity to serve on the ASQ Board of Directors. The nomination period is now open for Region Directors in the South Atlantic (Region 5) for the January 1, 2020–December 31, 2021 term. Our section has been asked by ASQ to nominate an interested candidate by July 31, 2019. If you are interested or know of a person who you would like to nominate, please read the provided guidance.
• July 2019 Meeting - Wednesday, 10 July 2019 —Due to the inability of one of the presenters to make the planned meeting, we have rescheduled the presentation to October and given our section the evening of the second Wednesday of the month back for them to do as they may.
• August 2019 Meeting - Wednesday, 14 August 2019 —A "Seven Principles" Journal and Learning to Innovate from Leonardo Da Vinci presented by Michael Novak at Olive Garden, Tysons Corner
• September and October Certification Schedule
• Three Comprehensive Courses by a Master Black Belt Instructor Phoenix, Arizona – Starting August 19!
• June 2019 Meeting Slides -- Baldrige Performance Excellence Program | 2019 presented by Steve Bonk
• August 2019 Meeting Slides -- A "Seven Principles" Journal and Learning to Innovate from Leonardo Da Vinci presented by Michael Novak

New or updated as of 9 June 2019

• June 2019 Meeting - Wednesday, 12 June 2019 -- Baldrige Performance Excellence Program | 2019 presented by Steve Bonk, past senior examiner and team leader for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award at P.J. Skidoos, Fairfax

New or updated as of 2 May 2019

• May 2019 Meeting - Wednesday, 8 May 2019 -- The Code of Trust presented by Robin Dreeke, former FBI Special Agent and Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program at On the Border, Reston
• Draft Board Minutes 10 April 2019
• Section meeting dates Monthly Meeting Venues
• Membership Committee Reports
• May 2019 Meeting Slides -- The Code of Trust presented by Robin Dreeke

New or updated as of 9 April 2019

• January 2019 Meeting Handouts -- Understanding Quality/Compliance Requirements For Diversity And Inclusion Hiring presented by Lori Daly
• Section meeting dates for 2019
• Section meeting dates Monthly Meeting Venues
New or updated as of 1 April 2019
• April 2019 Meeting - Wednesday, 10 April 2019 -- Senate Productivity and Quality Awards (SPQA) presented by Marcia Harrington at Fiona's Irish Pub, Kingstowne Center
• April 2019 Meeting Slides -- Senate Productivity and Quality Awards (SPQA) presented by Marcia Harrington
New or updated as of 13 March 2019
• February 2019 Meeting Slides -- The Leaders Role presented by Tom Connally
• March 2019 Meeting Slides -- 50 Years of Quality presented by Geoff Withnell, RCT Systems
• Draft Board Minutes 12 February 2019
New or updated as of 11 March 2019
• March 2019 Meeting - Wednesday, 13 March 2019 -- 50 Years of Quality presented by Geoff Withnell, RCT Systems, at Olive Garden, Tysons Corner
New or updated as of 11 February 2019
• February 2019 Meeting - Wednesday, 13 February 2019 -- The Leaders Role presented by Tom Connally at Country Inn & Suites near Potomac Mills, Woodbridge, meal from Qdoba
New or updated as of 15 January 2019
• Draft Board Minutes 9 January 2019
New or updated as of 8 January 2019
• January 2019 Meeting - Wednesday, 9 January 2019 -- Understanding Quality/Compliance Requirements For Diversity And Inclusion Hiring presented by Lori Daly, Vice President at W R Systems, Ltd, at Houlihan's Springfield inside the Hilton hotel
New or updated as of 1 January 2019
• Section Leadership Committee updates for 2019

Archives 2018


New or updated as of 10 December 2018

• December 2018 Meeting - Wednesday, 12 December 2018 -- Annual Holiday Party atP.J. Skidoos, Fairfax

New or updated as of 13 November 2018

• November 2018 Meeting - Wednesday, 14 November 2018 -- Get the Defects Out of Root Cause Analysis ASQ Webinar moderated by Cory Sherb at Fiona's Irish Pub, Kingstowne Center
New or updated as of 10 October 2018
• October 2018 Meeting - Wednesday, 10 October 2018 -- The Art of Integrating Strategic Planning, Process Metrics, Risk Mitigation, and Auditing Webcast ASQ Webinar moderated by Cory Sherb at P.J. Skidoos, Fairfax
• January 2018 Meeting Slides -- Bio Banking and its Role in Research presented by Jai Singh
• March 2018 Meeting Slides -- Lean Agile Product Development in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) presented by Eugene Nkomba
• April 2018 Meeting Slides -- Translating VOC into Strategy presented by Zak Pierce, Tina Cooper and Michael Casias
• May 2018 Meeting Slides -- Latest Quality Trends Fresh From ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement presented by Barbara McCullough, Cyndi Reichardt, and Eric Jensen
• June 2018 Meeting Slides -- De-Mystifying Knowledge Management presented by Michael J. Novak
• July 2018 Meeting Slides -- Approaches to Environmental Data Quality - A Historical Perspective presented by Ken Rapuano
• August 2018 Meeting Slides -- ISO 9001 Quality Management System ó A Tool For Business Success presented by Matthew Omodia
New or updated as of 11 September 2018
• September 2018 Meeting - Wednesday, 12 September 2018 -- Current Trends in Quality, a Roundtable Discussion facilitated by the Section 0511 Board at Houlihan's Springfield inside the Hilton hotel
• Recent job postings -- Quality Assurance Engineer and Quality Assurance Associate
New or updated as of 4 August 2018
• August 2018 Meeting - Wednesday, 8 August 2018 -- ISO 9001 Quality Management System ó A Tool For Business Success presented by Matthew Omodia, Quality Coordinator, Mattei Transit Engineering at On the Border, Reston
New or updated as of 3 July 2018
• July 2018 Meeting - Wednesday, 11 July 2018 -- Approaches to Environmental Data Quality - A Historical Perspective presented by Ken Rapuano at Olive Garden, Tysons Corner
New or updated as of 5 June 2018
• June 2018 Meeting - Wednesday, 13 June 2018 -- De-Mystifying Knowledge Management presented by Michael J. Novak at Fiona's Irish Pub, Kingstowne Center
New or updated as of 5 May 2018
• May 2018 Meeting - Wednesday, 9 May 2018 -- Latest Quality Trends Fresh From ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement presented by Barbara McCullough, Secretary, ASQ Section 0511, Cyndi Reichardt, Finance Committee, ASQ Section 0511, and Eric Jensen, Exam Committee Chair, ASQ Section 0511 at PJ Skidoos, Fairfax
New or updated as of 7 April 2018
• April 2018 Meeting - Wednesday, 11 April 2018 -- Translating VOC into Strategy presented by Zak Pierce ó Director ó Strategy, Tina Cooper ó Senior Manager ó Public Sector Advisory, Michael Casias ó Senior Associate ó Strategy at Houlihan's Springfield inside the Hilton hotel
New or updated as of 12 March 2018
• March 2018 Meeting - Wednesday, 14 March 2018 -- Lean Agile Product Development in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) presented by Eugene Nkomba, Agile Coach, CMQ/OEb at Country Inn & Suites near Potomac Mills, Woodbridge, meal from Qdoba
• 2018 Meeting Schedule Locations and dates for the rest of the calendar year
• Recent job postings -- Quality Manager, AECOM, Chantilly, VA and Senior Project Analyst, AMSG, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC VA
• Draft Board Vision Minutes 10 Feb 2018
New or updated as of 13 February 2018
• Recent job postings -- Quality Assurance Internal Auditor,Sierra Nevada Corporation, Hagerstown, MD
New or updated as of 9 February 2018
• February 2018 Meeting - Wednesday, 14 February 2018 -- Delivering Process Excellence Through Process Management Webcast, an ASQ Webinar moderated by Cory Sherb at On the Border, Reston
New or updated as of 9 January 2018
• January 2018 Meeting - Wednesday, 10 January 2018 -- Bio Banking and its Role in Research by Jai Singh at the Olive Garden in Tysons Corner

Archives 2017


New or updated as of 6 December 2017

• December 2017 Meeting - Wednesday, 13 December 2017 -- Social Night at Not Your Average Joes in Reston
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery -- Recent updates include November 2017
• November 2017 Meeting Slides -- Weathering the Storm: An ISO 9001:2015 Transitional Audit Tale presented by Monica Seh
• Draft Board Minutes - October and November 2017
• Membership Committee Reports -- November 2017

New or updated as of 7 November 2017

• New speaker and presentation for November 2017 Meeting - Wednesday, 8 November 2017 -- Weathering the Storm: An ISO 9001:2015 Transitional Audit Tale presented by Monica Seh at Houlihan's in Springfield
• Recent job postings -- Quality Assurance Specialist, CSRA, West Falls Church, VA
• All the Technology Books Distributed
• Membership Committee Reports -- October 2017
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery -- Recent updates include October 2017

New or updated as of 1 November 2017

• November 2017 Meeting - Wednesday, 8 November 2017 -- Bio Banking and its Role in Research presented by Jai Singh at Houlihan's in Springfield
• Software SIG meeting - Tuesday, 28 November 2017 -- Technology, Strategy, and Culture Change as Non-Profit Enablers presented by Jim Templin and Lynelle Korte ñ Executive Directors - B2B, Bill Brody. ASQ Market Research Manager, and Cynthia Nazario, Senior Program Specialist
• Recent job postings -- Director of Quality and Regulatory Affairs, Transplant Leadership Institute LLC, Pittsburgh, PA
• October 2017 Meeting Slides -- Driving Innovative IT Project Metrics by Embracing Human Nature by John Bowen

New or updated as of 5 October 2017

• Draft Board Minutes - September 2017
• Scholarships -- available for members

New or updated as of 2 October 2017

• Software SIG meeting - Tuesday 24 October 2017 -- Phishing for a Living presented by Naheed Bleecker, Vice President, Information Technology, Cielo
• Recent job postings -- Quality Assurance Specialist, Strategic Hiring Solutions, Melbourne, FL
• Recent resume postings

New or updated as of 24 September 2017

• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery -- Recent updates include August and September 2017
• September 2017 Meeting Slides -- DevOps Audit and Compliance by Jeff Gallimore

New or updated as of 8 September 2017

• Save the date for the October 2017 Meeting - Wednesday, 11 October 2017 -- Driving Innovative IT Project Metrics by Embracing Human Nature presented by John Bowen at Maggiano's Little Italy in Tysons Corner

New or updated as of 5 September 2017

• Software SIG meeting - Tuesday, 26 September 2017 -- Quality-Driven Innovation in Systems & Software presented by Dr. Nicole Radziwill
• Draft Board Minutes - August 2017
• September 2017 Meeting - Wednesday, 13 September 2017 -- DevOps Audit and Compliance by Jeff Gallimore at P.J. Skidoos, Fairfax

New or updated as of 8 August 2017

• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery -- Recent updates include July 2017
• July 2017 Meeting Slides -- Constructing a More Effective Survey by Cory Sherb
• August 2017 Meeting Slides -- Lean Process Improvement at Inova Health System by Kathy Paro, Keith Hardwick and Melissa A. Martin
• Software SIG meeting - Tuesday, 22 August 2017 -- Improving Enterprise Security: Cyber Threat Sharing with STIX and TAXII Presented by Mr. Christopher Lenk and Mr. Michael Kouremetis
• Board Agenda - August 2017
• Membership Committee Reports -- August 2017

New or updated as of 28 July 2017

• August 2017 Meeting - Wednesday, 10 August 2017 -- Lean Process Improvement at Inova Health System at Fiona's Irish Pub, Kingstowne Center

New or updated as of 11 July 2017

• Membership Committee Reports -- May & July 2017
• Voice of the Customer 2nd QTR Call

New or updated as of 7 July 2017

• September 2017 Meeting - Wednesday, 13 September 2017 -- at PJ Skidoo's, Fairfax,VA
• Software SIG meeting - Tuesday, 25 July 2017 -- Aligning Corporate Governance with IT Governance and Why Should I Care? Presented by Ms. Louise Peabody, CPA, CRMA, PMP

New or updated as of 5 July 2017

• July 2017 Meeting - Wednesday, 12 July 2017 -- Constructing a More Effective Survey by Cory Sherb at the Tysons Corner Olive Garden
• August 2017 Meeting - Wednesday, 9 August 2017 -- at Fiona's Irish Pub in Kingstowne

New or updated as of 9 June 2017

• Configuration Management Working Group, presentation from 30 May 2017 - Decoding Culture: Beyond the Fluff and Back to Business by Jeff Gallimore, Excella Consulting
• June 2017 Meeting Slides -- Self Assessment as Part of the Quality Leader's Toolkit by Scott Rutherford

New or updated as of 30 May 2017

• Software SIG meeting Tuesday 27 June 2017 -- New or Improved! Software Engineering Standards for Quality presented by Dr. Annette Reilly, CSDP, IEEE-CS Golden Core and Senior Member
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery -- Recent updates include May 2017

New or updated as of 23 May 2017

• June 2017 Meeting - Wednesday, 14 June 2017 -- Self Assessment as Part of the Quality Leader's Toolkit by Scott Rutherford
• Configuration Management Working Group, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 - Presents Decoding Culture: Beyond the Fluff and Back to Business by Jeff Gallimore, Excella Consulting
• April 2017 Meeting Slides -- Agile and CMMI, are They Good Bedfellows? by Rebecca McKaughan
• May 2017 Meeting Slides -- Latest Quality Trends Fresh From ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement by Barbara McCullough, Cyndi Reichardt, and Ray Crawford

New or updated as of 5 May 2017

• May 2017 Meeting - Wednesday, 10 May 2017 -- Report from the 70th ASQ World Conference in Milwaukee by Ray Crawford, Barbara McCullough and Cyndi Reichart
• Government Lean Six Sigma Initiatives June - August 2017
• Draft Board Minutes - April 2017

New or updated as of 6 April 2017

• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery -- Recent updates include March 2017
• Draft Board Minutes - March 2017

New or updated as of 28 March 2017

• April 2017 Meeting - Wednesday, 12 April 2017 -- Agile and CMMI, are They Good Bedfellows? by Rebecca McKaughan at Country Inn & Suites near Potomac Mills, Woodbridge, meal from Qdoba
• Software SIG meeting Tuesday 28 March 2017 -- What is Performance Engineering and How is it Relevant? Presented by Dr. Danny Moore, Systems Engineer, MITRE Corporation
• Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting -- Wednesday 29 March 2017 -- Fostering a Culture of Quality with High Maturity presented by Ron Lear, Corporate Quality Director, Booz Allen Hamilton and Kevin Schaaff, Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton

New or updated as of 8 March 2017

• March 2017 Meeting Slides -- Quality Tools that Outlast Management Trends by Cory Sherb
• April 2017 Meeting - Wednesday, 12 April 2017 -- Agile Coach Case Study by Rebecca McKaughan at Country Inn & Suites near Potomac Mills, Woodbridge, meal from Qdoba
• Revised Draft Section Business Plan - March 2017

New or updated as of 3 March 2017

• March 2017 Meeting - Wednesday, 8 March 2017 -- Quality Tools that Outlast Management Trends by Cory Sherb at P.J. Skidoos, Fairfax
• ASQ Certified CMQ/OE Exam Online Class -- offered by the Nebraska section (1302) March through May 2017
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery -- Recent updates include February 2017
• Section Leadership Committee -- New members of leadership team for 2017
• Section meeting locations for 2017

New or updated as of 27 February 2017

• CQA refresher training course -- offered Jointly by the Northern Virginia section (0511) and the DC/suburban Maryland section (0509) March and April 2017

New or updated as of 7 February 2017

• Software SIG meeting Tuesday 28 February 2017 -- We are paying for What?! IT Asset Management: security, sanity and saving money presented by Mr. Mr. David Morse, Senior Cyber Security Engineer, MITRE Corporation
• Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting -- Wednesday 25 March 2017 -- presented by Ron Lear, Director Corporate Quality, Booz Allen Hamilton and Kevin Schaaff, Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton

New or updated as of 2 February 2017

• Board Agenda - February 2017
• Section Leadership Committee -- New Chair, Chairelect and others for 2017
• February 2017 Meeting - Wednesday, 8 February 2017 -- Your Organization's Quality Management System is OK. Now What? by Eric Malloy, at Olive Garden, Tysons Corner
• New, Lower Price - Section Dinner now costs $25 if registration made prior to the cutoff date (usually by the Friday before the meeting)
• New SIG Meetup Group
• Recent job postings -- Program Manager and Software Developer/Software Engineer
• January 2017 Meeting Slides -- Redesigning your Organization's Operational Review Process by Eric Malloy
• February 2017 Meeting Slides -- Your Organization's Quality Management System is OK. Now What? by Mike Novak
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery -- Recent updates include January 2017

New or updated as of 7 January 2017

• Board Agenda - January 2017
• Section Leadership Committee updates for 2017
• Section meeting dates for 2017
• Software SIG meeting Tuesday 24 January 2017 -- Secure SDLC: How to Get Adoption presented by Mr. Curtis Bragdon, Director of Sales, Code Dx

Archives 2016


New or updated as of 30 December 2016

• Need for members to serve as Chair, Chair-elect, and to fill other board vacancies
• January 2017 Meeting - Wednesday, 11 January 2017 -- Redesigning your Organization's Operational Review Process by Eric Malloy, at Fiona's Irish Pub, Kingstowne Center
• Website Maintenance Training - 7 January 2017 - Looking for volunteers! Contact our webmaster23@asq0511.org
• Draft Board Minutes - December 2016
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery -- Recent updates include December 2016
• Membership Committee Report -- December 2016

New or updated as of 6 December 2016

• December 2016 Meeting - Wednesday, 14 December 2016 -- Social Night at On the Border, Reston
• November 2016 Meeting Slides, Video and Audio -- Risk Management in Roofing - labor, materials and insurance by Joshua Wilson
• Draft Board Minutes - November 2016
• New Recertification guidance
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery -- Recent updates include meetings held in August, September, and November 2016
• ASQ Section 0511 YouTube Channel -- Recent videos include November meeting

New or updated as of 7 November 2016

• November 2016 Meeting -- Wednesday, 9 November 2016 -- Risk Management in Roofing - labor, materials and insurance by Joshua Wilson at Houlihan's at the Springfield Hilton
• Board Agenda - November 2016

New or updated as of 8 October 2016

• October 2016 Meeting -- Save the date - Wednesday, 12 October 2016 -- at P.J. Skidoos in Fairfax
• July 2016 Meeting Video and Audio -- From Zero to Hero: 30 days to create better and more efficient health care for Veterans nation-wide (Scott Boodie)
• August 2016 Meeting Video and Audio -- Human Side of Insider Threat Investigations (Doug Sampson)
• September 2016 Meeting Video and Audio -- Agile Project Management (Geoffrey L Withnell)
• Draft Board Agenda - October 2016
• Draft Board Minutes - July - September 2016

New or updated as of 8 September 2016

• September 2016 Meeting -- Wednesday, 14 September 2016 -- Agile Project Management at Not Your Average Joes in Reston
• CQA refresher training course -- offered Jointly by the Northern Virginia section (0511) and the DC/suburban Maryland section (0509) October 2016
• April 2016 Meeting Video and Audio -- Compliance Challenges in Clinical Research Naive Locations: Case Study -- STRIVE (Sierra Leone Trial to Introduce a Vaccine against Ebola) (Seema Garg)
• May 2016 Meeting Video and Audio -- Quality Management System in Engineering Practice (Shane Beabes)

New or updated as of 18 August 2016

• August 2016 Meeting Presentation -- Human Side of Insider Threat Investigations (Doug Sampson)
• September 2016 Meeting -- Wednesday, 14 September 2016 -- Save the date - Not Your Average Joes in Reston

New or updated as of 9 August 2016

• Draft Board Agenda - August 2016
• Membership Committee Report -- August 2016
• Revised Draft Section Business Plan - August 2016

New or updated as of 3 August 2016

• Software SIG meeting Tuesday 23 August 2016 -- Using Non-Traditional Voice of the Customer Techniques to Measure and Manage the Customer Experience presented by Mr. John Goodman, Vice Chairman of Customer Care
• Draft Board Vision Minutes 30 July 2016

New or updated as of 20 July 2016

• August 2016 Meeting -- Wednesday, 10 August 2016 -- Human Side of Insider Threat Investigations by Doug Sampson at Olive Garden in Tysons Corner
• Draft Board Minutes - July 2016
• June 2016 Meeting Presentation -- Report from the 70th ASQ World Conference (Ray Crawford, Ellen Quinn, Bob Orkin, Barbara McCullough and Cyndi Reichart)
• July 2016 Meeting Presentation -- From Zero to Hero: 30 days to create better and more efficient health care for Veterans nation-wide (Scott Bonney)
• CMQ/OE -- online training course offered by ASQ Olde Colony Section 0111 evenings starting 25 July 2016
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery -- Recent updates include meetings held in December 2015, January, February, May and July 2016

New or updated as of 13 July 2016

• Education Committee Report -- July 2016
• Board Agenda - July 2016
• Board Minutes - March 2016

New or updated as of 7 July 2016

• Recent job postings -- Quality Auditor-Engineer and Continuous Improvement Expert
• July 2016 Meeting -- Wednesday, 13 July 2016 -- at Fiona's in Kingstowne
• Software SIG meeting Tuesday 26 July 2016 -- Cybersecurity Discoveries from Machine Learning presented by Mr. Curtis Bragdon, Darktrace

New or updated as of 7 June 2016

• Education Committee Report -- June 2016
• Membership Committee Report -- June 2016
• Board Agenda - June 2016
• New Certification Examination Methodology -- Starting Winter 2016
• Technology Books Available

New or updated as of 31 May 2016

• June 2016 Meeting -- Wednesday, 8 June 2016 -- Report from the 70th ASQ World Conference in Milwaukee by Ray Crawford, Ellen Quinn, Bob Orkin, Barbara McCullough and Cyndi Reichart
• Recent job postings -- Assistant Manager Quality Audits and Evaluation Services, Quality Engineer at Aerojet Rocketdyne Culpeper, and QA Specialist
• April 2016 Meeting Presentation -- Compliance Challenges in Clinical Research Naive Locations: Case Study -- STRIVE (Sierra Leone Trial to Introduce a Vaccine against Ebola) by Seema Garg
• May 2016 Meeting Presentation -- Quality Management System in Engineering Practice by Shane Beabes
• Section Leadership Committee updates - DBA, Historian and Placements

New or updated as of 10 May 2016

• Education Committee Report -- May 2016
• Section Leadership Volunteers needed -- DBA, Newsletter, Placements, Publicity, Software SIG, Treasurer-Elect and Volunteer Coordinator

New or updated as of 6 May 2016

• Board Agenda - May 2016

New or updated as of 4 May 2016

• Lean Six Sigma SIG Meeting -- meeting date Wednesday, 25 May 2016 -- Deming at the Department of Defense by Dr. Cragin Shelton, MITRE Corporation
• Software SIG Meeting -- meeting date Tuesday, 24 May 2016 -- Software Defects and Software Reliability Assessment presented by Kristine Hejna
• Board Minutes -- Draft April

New or updated as of 27 Apr 2016

• Lean Six Sigma SIG Meetings -- meeting date Wednesday, 27 April 2016 -- Lightening Talks from the Trenches presented by Mr. Danny Moore, MITRE CORPORATION, Ms. Kristine Hejna, McKENNA PRINCIPALS, and Arlene Hendrix, BATTELLE
• May 2016 Meeting -- Wednesday, 11 May 2016 -- Quality Management System in Engineering Practice by Shane Beabes

New or updated as of 12 Apr 2016

• Board Agenda - April 2016
• Education Committee Report -- April 2016
• Certification Examination Reports -- 5 March 2016 & 5 December 2015

New or updated as of 5 Apr 2016

• Board Minutes -- Final: February 2016, Draft March
• Recent job postings -- Quality Assurance Manager
• Leadership Training -- 9 April 2016
• Scholarships -- available for members and high school seniors
• Software SIG meeting -- meeting date Tuesday, 26 April 2015 -- The IT Infrastructure Library - a tool for creating and maintaining value in IT services presented by Jeanne Schock

New or updated as of 8 Mar 2016

• April 2016 Meeting -- Wednesday, 13 Aprl 2016 -- Compliance Challenges in Clinical Research Naive Locations: Case Study -- STRIVE (Sierra Leone Trial to Introduce a Vaccine against Ebola) by Seema Garg,
• Board Agenda - March 2016
• Draft Board Minutes - January & February 2016
• Recent job postings -- Quality Assurance/Regulatory Affairs Director
• ASQ Section 0511 Lending Library
• February 2016 Meeting Presentation -- Why Normal is better than Average by Kristine Hejna -- Dinner Slides, Handouts, Audio and Video

New or updated as of 9 Feb 2016

• Board Agenda - February 2016

New or updated as of 7 Feb 2016

• February 2016 Meeting -- Wednesday, 10 February 2016 -- Why Normal is better than Average by Kristine Hejna

New or updated as of 22 Jan 2016

• January 2016 Meeting Presentation -- Earned Value Measurement by Kristine Hejna -- Audio and Video
• ISO 9000 Revision Training -- Postponed due to snow to Saturday, 30 Jan (New weather date 6 Feb)

New or updated as of 15 Jan 2016

• January 2016 Meeting Presentation -- Earned Value Measurement by Kristine Hejna -- Handout
• ISO 9000 Revision Training -- Saturday, 23 Jan (Weather date 30 Jan)

New or updated as of 12 Jan 2016

• Software SIG meeting meeting date Tuesday, 26 January 2016 -- The IT Infrastructure Library - a tool for creating and maintaining value in IT services presented by Jeanne Schock
• Board Agenda - January 2016

New or updated as of 11 Jan 2016

• January 2016 Meeting -- Wednesday, 13 January 2016 -- EVMS - Earned Value Management Systems by Kristine Hejna
• Winter 2016 Section Course -- Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence

Archives 2015


New or updated as of 8 Dec 2015

• Board Agenda - December 2015
• Recent job postings -- Corporate Quality Manager

New or updated as of 1 Dec 2015

• Software SIG meeting meeting date Tuesday, 15 December 2015 -- Evaluating hazards in critical software-dependent systems presented by Dr. Sushil Birla

New or updated as of 13 Nov 2015

• December 2015 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 9 December 2015 -- Holiday Social Night
• November 2015 Meeting Presentation -- Quality Assurance in the Healthcare Sector: Identified Needs & Possible Solutions by Natalie Gottlieb -- Audio and Video

New or updated as of 10 Nov 2015

• Software SIG meeting meeting date Tuesday 24 November 2015 -- Lean Requirements Validation for Improved Quality presented by Cary Bryczek
• November 2015 Meeting Presentation -- Quality Assurance in the Healthcare Sector: Identified Needs & Possible Solutions by Natalie Gottlieb -- Handout
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery -- Recent updates include November meeting
• SANS Cyber Defense Initiative 2015 - Women's Connect Event 15 Dec 2015
• ISO 9000:2015 -- All-day Saturday training session on ISO 9000:2015

New or updated as of 4 November 2015

• Education Committee Reports -- October 2015
• Board Agenda - November 2015
• Draft Board Minutes - September & October 2015

New or updated as of 31 October 2015

• October 2015 Meeting Presentations -- What Works? The Evidence-Based, Data-Driven Government Movement by John M. Kamensky and A Quality Journey: the Pursuit of the Malcolm Baldrige Award Scott McIntyre -- Handouts, Audio and Video
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery -- Recent updates include October meeting
• ASQ Section 0511 YouTube Channel -- Recent videos include October meeting

New or updated as of 27 October 2015

• November 2015 Meeting -- Wednesday, 4 November 2015 -- Quality Assurance in the Healthcare Sector: Identified Needs & Possible Solutions by Natalie Gottlieb

New or updated as of 9 October 2015

• Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) Certification Test Preparation Course -- Sign up by 16 Oct

New or updated as of 24 September 2015

• Woman in Quality Various upcoming activities

New or updated as of 12 September 2015

• September 2015 Meeting Presentation -- Supply Chain Management by Steve McNamara -- Handout, Audio and Video
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery -- Recent updates include September meeting
• ASQ Section 0511 YouTube Channel -- Recent videos include September meeting

New or updated as of 8 September 2015

• Software SIG meeting meeting date Tuesday 22 September 2015 -- Real World Software Risk Management presented by Mary Lewis
• Board Agenda -- September 2015

New or updated as of 3 September 2015

• Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) Certification Test Preparation Course -- Sign up by 11 Sept

New or updated as of 28 August 2015

• September 2015 Meeting -- Wednesday, 9 September 2015 -- Supply Chain Management by Steve McNamara at Olive Garden in Tysons Corner
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery -- Recent updates include August meeting
• August 2015 Meeting Presentation -- Overseeing Ordnance Investigations And Cleanups On Closing And Formerly Used Military Training Site by James Pastorick -- Handout, Audio and Video

New or updated as of 11 August 2015

• Board Agenda - August 2015
• Software SIG meeting meeting date Tuesday 25 August 2015 -- Testing Software where Cause is De-coupled from Effect presented by George Hurlburt

New or updated as of 7 August 2015

• The ASQ Innovation Division is hosting its Third Annual Innovation Conference Friday, Sept. 18 through Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015 at the Holiday Inn University Area and Conference Center in Charlottesville, VA

New or updated as of 5 August 2015

• Fall 2015 Section Course -- Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence

New or updated as of 31 July 2015

• Recent job postings -- Quality Assurance Specialist
• Recent job postings -- Quality Manager - TS/SCI

New or updated as of 28 July 2015

• August 2015 Meeting -- Wednesday, 12 August 2015 -- Overseeing Ordnance Investigations And Cleanups On Closing And Formerly Used Military Training Site by James Pastorick at Fiona's in Kings Town Shopping Center
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery -- Recent updates include July meeting
• July 2015 Meeting Presentation -- Managing Quality Assurance in Federal Services Contracts: Roles and Responsibilities of the Government COTR and Contract Project Manager -- Handout, Audio and Video
• Special Meeting in October 2015 -- Wednesday, 14 October 2015 -- Panel Discussion - Advancing Quality: the New Performance Challenge at Maggiano's in Tysons Galleria, Tysons Corner
• ASQ Section 0511 YouTube Channel -- Recent videos include July meeting

New or updated as of 7 July 2015

• Draft Board Vision Minutes 27 June
• Board Agenda - July 2015
• Membership Committee Report -- July 2015

New or updated as of 22 June 2015

• July 2015 Meeting -- Wednesday, 8 July 2015 -- Managing Quality Assurance in Federal Services Contracts: Roles and Responsibilities of the Government COTR and Contract Project Manager by Thomas White
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery -- Recent updates include June meeting
• New Recertification Chair -- new package mailing address
• Software SIG meeting meeting date Tuesday 23 June 2015 -- Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks: Agile For Legacy Systems resented by Craeg Strong
• Draft Board Minutes - June 2015
• June 2015 Meeting Presentation -- Quality at the Executive Level -- Slides, Audio and Video
• Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting -- Wednesday 24 June 2015 -- Topic: ProModel: Process and Modeling Healthcare Delivery presented by Geff McDonald, ProModel, Director of Healthcare Initiatives; Kurtis E. Shampine, Pro-Model, Sr. VP Life Sciences Division

New or updated as of 9 June 2015

• Board Agenda - June 2015
• Education Committee Reports -- June 2015
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery -- Recent updates include May meeting
• Certification Examination Report -- 6 June 2015
• Membership Committee Report -- June 2015

New or updated as of 5 June 2015

• Looking for a volunteers to join the section board to fill several vacancies
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery recent updates include presence at the Spring GMU Job Fair

New or updated as of 31 May 2015

• June 2015 Meeting -- Wednesday, 10 June 2015 -- Quality at the Executive Level
• You're invited--three then free
• May 2015 Meeting Presentation -- What transpires at the perennial ASQ World Conference each May? Slides, Audio and Video
• Board Minutes Draft May minutes
• Certification Examination Instructions -- For 6 June 2015 Exam
• Recent job postings EIS Quality Manager

New or updated as of 11 May 2015

• May 2015 Meeting -- Wednesday, 13 May 2015 -- What transpires at the perennial ASQ World Conference each May?
• Education Committee Reports May 2015
• Section 505 - Philadelphia, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 - Dinner Program - The Baldrige Journey
• Board Agenda - May 2015
• Board Minutes ñ draft April minutes
• Software SIG meeting meeting date Tuesday 26 May 2015 ñ Cyber-Security Policy and Ethics Presented by Kelly Yamaguchi

New or updated as of 7 April 2015

• Revised April 2015 Meeting -- Wednesday, 8 April 2015 -- Drive for Quality in China by Gary Coleman

New or updated as of 1 April 2015

• Software SIG meeting meeting date Tuesday 28 April 2015 -- "Be Careful What You Pay For: Applying the Fundamentals of Quality to Software" presented by Rick Spiewak

New or updated as of 20 March 2015

• March 2015 Meeting Presentation -- The Gift of Quality: Enabling Human Exploration by David Swanson
• April 2015 Meeting -- Wednesday, 8 April 2015 -- Quality at the Executive Level by Paul Strasser
• Certification Examination Report -- 7 March 2015
• New location for Certification Examinations
• Section Leadership Committee updates

New or updated as of 10 March 2015

• Board Agenda - March 2015
• VAHQ is looking for speakers for their conference in Richmond in November 2015 by Friday, March 13, 2015
• Education Committee Reports March 2015
• Scholarship Committee Report March 2015
• Recent job postings Quality Manager and UL Field Representative

New or updated as of 3 March 2015

• Looking for a volunteers to serve as Vice-Chair and/or Program Coordinator of the Software SIG Committee.
• March 2015 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 11 March 2015 ñ Gift of Quality by David Swanson
• Section Leadership Committee updates
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery recent updates
• Software SIG meeting meeting date Tuesday 24 March 2015 ñ "Website Performance Testing Strategies to use in Emergency Situation" presented by Rudy Regner
• Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) Certification Test Preparation Course ñ Sign up by April 25

New or updated as of 12 February 2015

• Recent job postings ñ Clinical Research Quality Assurance Auditor
• Recent resume postings

New or updated as of 10 February 2015

• Board Agenda - February 2015
• Revised Draft Section Business Plans - February 2015
• Looking for a volunteers to serve as mentors for the next generation of quality leaders.
• Looking for a volunteers to serve as the section's Treasurer-Elect and the Software SIG co-chair.
• Software SIG meeting meeting date Tuesday 24 February 2015 ñ "Injecting Security into SDLC" ñ How to Incorporate a Security Development Lifecycle into the Software Development Lifecycle presented by Shahid N. Shah

New or updated as of 4 February 2015

• Software SIG meeting meeting date Tuesday 24 February 2015 ñ "Injecting Security into SDLC" ñ How to Incorporate a Security Development Lifecycle into the Software Development Lifecycle presented by Shahid N. Shah
• Revised Draft Section Business Plans ñ February 2015
• Board Minutes ñ June, July & November approved board & vision minutes

New or updated as of 27 January 2015

• Recent job postings ñ Quality Systems Specialist and Quality Manager
• Recent resume postings
• February 2015 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 11 February 2015 ñ The Power of Peer Review presented by Robert Stiles
• November 2014 Meeting Presentation ñ The Art and Science in Ensuring Quality Principles in Knowledge Management by Robert Mitchell
• January 2015 Meeting Presentation ñ Manufacture and Quality Control for Conjugate Vaccines by Andrew Lees
• February 2015 Meeting Presentation ñ The Power of Peer Review by Robert Stiles
• Draft Section Business Plans ñ January 2015

New or updated as of 2 January 2015

• January 2015 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 14 January 2015 ñ Manufacture and Quality Control for Conjugate Vaccines presented by Andrew Lees
• Section Leadership Committee updates
• 2015 Meeting schedule

Archives 2014


New or updated as of 10 December 2014
• Board Agenda ñ December 2014 revised
• Software SIG meeting ñ Revised meeting date Tuesday, 27 Janauary 2015 - ìIf it passes test, it must be OKî - Common Misconceptions and The Immutable Laws of Software Development presented by Girish Seshagiri

New or updated as of 7 December 2014
• December 2014 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 10 December 2014 ñ Holiday Social Night
• Board Agenda ñ December 2014
• Software SIG meeting ñ No December meeting - Next meeting is Tuesday, 25 Janauary 2015 - ìIf it passes test, it must be OKî - Common Misconceptions and The Immutable Laws of Software Development presented by Girish Seshagiri
• Draft Board Minutes ñ November 2014
• Board Vision Minutes ñ November 2014
• Education Committee Report ñ December 2014
• Membership Committee Report ñ December 2014

New or updated as of 6 November 2014
• Board Agenda ñ November 2014
• Draft Board Minutes ñ October 2014
• Board Vision Agenda ñ November 2014

New or updated as of 28 October 2014
• November 2014 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 12 Nov 2014 ñ The State of the Auditing Profession in 2014 by Robert Mitchell

New or updated as of 3 October 2014
• ASQ Mini-conference: Quality Today, Success Tomorrow, will be held November 15, 2014 in the Gibble Auditorium of Elizabethtown College
• Board Agenda ñ October 2014
• Draft Board Minutes ñ September 2014
• Draft Board Minutes ñ August 2014

New or updated as of 28 September 2014
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 28 October 2014 - Risk Management-103: Risk Metrics ó Risk Management-103: Metrics Applications, Part 2, continued from the September talk presented by Mike Helton

New or updated as of 18 September 2014
• October 2014 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 8 Oct 2014 ñ Building a Better ASQ Chapter 0511
• Looking for a volunteers to serve as assistant proctors and registration assistants for the next certification exam to be held Saturday, 4 October 2014. Registration starts at 7:30 am and the exams starts at 8:00 am.
• ASQ Section 0511 Education Survey ñ Please complete by 6 October 2014

New or updated as of 13 September 2014
• Recent job postings ñ One position
• September 2014 Meeting Presentation ñ Wednesday, 10 September 2014 ñ Counterfeit Electronic Parts: How to Keep Them Out of Your Supply Chain by John R. Eppler

New or updated as of 5 September 2014
• September 2014 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 10 September 2014 ñ Counterfeit Electronic Parts: How to Keep Them Out of Your Supply Chain by John R. Eppler
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 23 September 2014 - Risk Management-103: Risk Metrics ó Measuring Risk and the Risk Process Presented by Mike Helton

New or updated as of 8 August 2014
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 26 August 2014: The Discipline of Software Engineering presented by Mark Doernhoefer
• The 32nd annual Senate Productivity & Quality Award for Virginia (SPQA-VA), the Commonwealths primer quality event, will be held on September 15 and 16 at the Doubletree Midlothian-Richmond Hotel
• Draft Board Minutes ñ July 2014
• Board Vision Meeting ñ Minutes and Agendas

New or updated as of 5 August 2014
• August 2014 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 13 August 2014 ñ Team Building Using Social Media presented by Adam Parnes
• Innovation Interest Group conference ñ Saturday, September 20, 2014 in Toronto
• Summer 2014 Section Course ñ Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence

New or updated as of 8 July 2014
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 22 July 2014 - Applying Process Mining to IT Big Data by Richard Eng
• Board Agenda ñ July 2014
• Draft Board Minutes ñ June 2014

New or updated as of 1 July 2014
• July 2014 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 9 July 2014 ñ Social Night with focus on the Quality/Education Connection
• Recent job postings ñ Two positions
• Section Leadership Committee updates
• Board Minutes ñ May 2014

New or updated as of 10 June 2014
• June 2014 Meeting Presentation ñ Design & Constructing Division of ASQ, Join us in building the future by Robert Orkin
• Certification Examination Report ñ 7 June 2014
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 24 June 2014 - A Rules Engine Experiment: Lessons Learned on When and How to use a Rules-Based Solution by Cris Hutto

New or updated as of 5 June 2014
• Recent job postings ñ Three positions
• Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting ñ Wednesday 25 June 2014 ñ Innovative Advances in the Application of Lean Six Sigma by Darrell Davis, Chief Process Improvement Officer; Practice Director, Process and Performance Management, Master Black Belt

New or updated as of 22 May 2014
• Recent job postings ñ Contracted QC Inspectors and/or Auditors
• Looking for a volunteers to serve as assistant proctors and registration assistants for the next certification exam to be held Saturday, 7 June 2014
• Looking for a volunteers to serve as our section's Treasurer Elect, Secretary, and Arrangements and Software SIG committee chairs.
• Looking for a volunteers to respond to a study on the use of Zero Positional Tolerance at Maximum Material condition.
• May 2014 Meeting Presentation ñ How We Encounter the (Quality) Legacy of Our Founding Fathers Every Day by Gregg Monaco
• Draft Board Minutes ñ May 2014
• Board Minutes ñ March 2014
• Section Leadership Committee updates

New or updated as of 13 May 2014
• Recent job postings ñ PMI Quality Assurance Manager
• Decision and Risk Analytics, Vienna, VA

New or updated as of 8 May 2014
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 27 May 2014 ñ Using Agile Principles to Deliver Real Business Value at Scale by Mark Shima and Joseph Hilger

New or updated as of 23 April 2014
• May 2014 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 14 May 2014 ñ Gregg Monaco: How We Encounter the (Quality) Legacy of Our Founding Fathers Every Day in Northern Virginia (to include adjoining Maryland)

New or updated as of 21 April 2014
• Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting ñ Wednesday, 30 April 2014 ñ Enabling Excellence by Rhonda Farrell

New or updated as of 9 April 2014
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 22 April 2014 ñ Building a Software Assurance Road-map and Using It Effectively by Robert A. Martin
• Spring 2014 Section Course ñ Certified Quality Auditor
• Inquirer's Guide to the Criteria for Performance Excellence Course ñ 10-11 June Staunton
• Board Agenda ñ March 2014
• Recent job postings ñ Quality Manager Aerospace/Energy

New or updated as of 21 March 2014
• Approved Board Minutes ñ January 2014
• Draft Board Minutes ñ March 2014
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 25 March 2014 ñ Building a Software Assurance Road-map and Using It Effectively by Robert A. Martin

New or updated as of 11 March 2014
• Board Agenda ñ March 2014
• Certification Examination Report ñ 1 March 2014

New or updated as of 6 March 2014
• April 2014 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 9 April 2014 ñ Gerard Dache: The Quality & Reliability of Healthcare.gov - What Happened?
• Board Agenda ñ February 2014

New or updated as of 24 February 2014
• March 2014 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 12 March 2014 ñ Sam Carson: The Art and Science in Ensuring Quality Principles in Knowledge Management
• April 2014 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 9 April 2014 ñ Robert Orkin: Design & Constructing Division of ASQ

New or updated as of 20 February 2014
• Recent job postings ñ Gemini Tech QA Specialist
• Recent job postings ñ Progress Rail Quality Engineer

New or updated as of 11 February 2014
• Recent job postings ñ Bechtel QA Engineer Reston
• Recent resume postings
• January 2014 Meeting Presentation ñ An Early Introduction to ISO 9001:2015 by Richard Gillis
• Public Blended Lean Six Sigma Green & Black Belt Certification Workshops
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 25 February 2014 ñ Open Source Software and Government by David Wheeler

New or updated as of 9 February 2014
• Board Agenda ñ February 2014
• Recent job postings ñ Quality Control/Business Process Engineer

New or updated as of 14 January 2014
• Looking for a volunteers to serve as our section's Treasurer Elect and Arrangements committee chair
• Board Draft Minutes ñ January 2014
• Board Minutes ñ December 2013
• The Maryland Performance Excellence Awards (MPEA) Program is looking for examiners
• Philly Section - January Meeting - Annual Lean Six Sigma program on Business Analytics

New or updated as of 7 January 2014
• 2014 Meeting schedule

New or updated as of 3 January 2014
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 28 January 2014 ñ Wayne Beekman: Getting the Requirements Right... The First Time
• Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting ñ Wednesday, 29 January 2014 - Danny Moore: Big Data Strategy
• Board Agenda ñ January 2014
• Board Draft Minutes ñ December 2013
• Board Minutes ñ November 2013
• Washington, DC & Maryland Metro Section 509 Events ñ January 2014
• ASQ 0509 Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence Refresher Course ñ Starting Saturday, 18 January 2014
• ASQ 0509 Certified Six Sigma Black Belt Refresher Course ñ Starting Saturday, 18 January 2014

Archives 2013


New or updated as of 27 December 2013
• January 2014 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 8 January 2014 ñ Richard Gills: An Early Introduction to ISO 9001:2015
• February 2014 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 12 February 2014 ñ Robert Orkin: Design & Constructing Division of ASQ

New or updated as of 12 December 2013
• ASQ Olde Colony On-line Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence Training ñ Starting Thursday, 12 December 2013

New or updated as of 3 December 2013
• Board Agenda ñ December 2013
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday 17 December 2013 ñ What Makes Good Enterprise Architecture and How Do You Get There? by Phil Homan
• Board Draft Minutes ñ November 2013
• Board Minutes ñ September and October 2013
• November 2013 Meeting Presentation ñ Occupational Health and Safety - Enhancing Your Management System by John Thoms

New or updated as of 12 November 2013
• Looking for a volunteers to serve as our section's Treasurer Elect, Proctors for December Certification exams and Co-chair for the Arrangements committee.
• Board Agenda ñ November 2013
• Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting - Wednesday, 29 January 2014 - Big Data Strategy by Danny Moore, Information Systems Engineering Lead at MITRE

New or updated as of 28 October 2013
• November 2013 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 13 November 2013 ñ Occupational Health and Safety - Enhancing Your Management System by John Thoms
• December 2013 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 11 December 2013 ñ Winter Social Evening
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday 29 October 2013 ñ Development of a Configuration Management Standard by Al Florence and Ron Perrella
• Recent resume postings
• October 2013 Meeting Presentation ñ The Red Bead Experiment ñ by Rip Stauffer

New or updated as of 22 October 2013
• Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting - Wednesday 30 October 2013 - Lean Six Sigma in Aviation Mishap Investigations by Mr. Gregg Monaco, LSS Master Black Belt
• Recent job postings ñ Six Sigma Blackbelt Process Engineer in Richmond
• Recent resume postings
• Board Draft Minutes ñ October 2013

New or updated as of 9 October 2013
• Board Agenda ñ October 2013
• Board Draft Minutes ñ September 2013
• Board Minutes ñ August 2013

New or updated as of 4 October 2013
• Innovation Interest Group conference ñ Saturday, October 26, 2013, Sacramento, CA
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery ñ September 2013 ñ Thirtieth Anniversay Celebration

New or updated as of 9 September 2013
• Looking for a volunteers to serve as our section's Treasurer Elect, Proctors for October Certification exams and Co-chair for the Arrangements committee.
• Board Agenda ñ September 2013
• Board Draft Minutes ñ August 2013
• Board Minutes ñ July 2013
• September 2013 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 11 September 2013 ñ Change of Panel members for Thirtieth Anniversary Dinner at Maggiano's Little Italy in Tysons Corner
• October 2013 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 9 October 2013 ñ The Red Bead Experiment by Rip Stauffer
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday 24 September 2013 ñ Leadership and Career Development by Joseph Ludford
• Philly Section - September Meeting - Improve the Quality of your Job/Career Search by Solving the Employment Puzzle

New or updated as of 27 August 2013
• Recent job postings ñ Quality and Engineering opportunities in Virginia
• Recent job links ñ Ball Aerospace & Technologies

New or updated as of 13 August 2013
• Board Agenda ñ August 2013
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday 27 August 2013 ñ Model-based Architecture and Engineering by Victor Harrison
• Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting will resume on 25 September with a presentation on Department of Defense Manufacturing Initiative & Six Sigma by Mr. Ralph Day

New or updated as of 2 August 2013
• Recent job postings ñ Quality Tech opportunity in Virginia
• Root Cause Analysis & Corrective Actions Workshop 24-25 October 2013

New or updated as of 17 July 2013
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday June 23, 2013 ñ Risk Management 102 by Mike Helton
• Fall 2013 ASQ Section 0511 (Northern Virginia) Prep Course For ASQís Certified Quality Auditor Examination, December 7, 2013

New or updated as of 12 July 2013
• Board Draft Minutes ñ July 2013
• Board Minutes ñ June 2013
• Message from the Chair ñ July 2013

New or updated as of 9 July 2013
• Board Agenda ñ July 2013
• Recent job postings ñ Quality Analyst opportunity in Charleston, SC

New or updated as of 5 July 2013
• Section Leadership Committee ñ 2013 - 2014 Officers
• August 2013 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 14 August 2013 ñ Search and Recovery by Ward Nickisch, COL Retired

New or updated as of 2 July 2013
• July 2013 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 10 July 2013 ñ Social Night - Meet the new Board
• June 2013 Meeting Presentation ñ Pathways to Matrix Management Success ñ by Ronald Gunn
• Board Draft Minutes ñ June 2013
• Board Minutes ñ May 2013
• Calendar

New or updated as of 18 June 2013
• Board Agenda ñ June 2013
• Board Minutes ñ April 2013
• Certification Examination Report ñ 1 June 2013
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday June 25, 2013 ñ OpenStack (Open source software for building private and public clouds) by Pat Holben

New or updated as of 15 June 2013
• Summer 2013 Section Course ñ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB)
• Special: Northern Virginia Section Thirtieth Anniversary Dinner ñ Wednesday, 11 September 2013 ñ Panel discussion at Maggiano's Little Italy in Tysons Corner
• Draft Board Minutes ñ May 2013

New or updated as of 17 May 2013
• June 2013 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 19 June 2013 ñ An introduction to the modern day ISO Management System by Sally Smoczynski

New or updated as of 14 May 2013
• Recent job postings ñ Quality Manager opportunity in Frederick Manufacturing company
• April 2013 Meeting Presentation ñ Pathways to Matrix Management Success ñ by Ronald Gunn
• Final Board Minutes ñ March 2013
• Draft Board Minutes ñ April 2013
• Board Agenda ñ May 2013

New or updated as of 10 May 2013
• 2013 Washington, DC Executive Briefing: Excellence in Process Improvement

New or updated as of 23 April 2013
• May 2013 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 15 May 2013 ñ Performance and Quality Management Working Together Thru Technology ñ by Charles (Chuck) N. Brans

New or updated as of 11 April 2013
• April 2013 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 17 April 2013 Pathways to Matrix Management Success ñ by Ronald Gunn
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 23 April 2013 ñ Tuesday, 23 April 2013 ñ Warranty Against Software Defects ñ A Disruptive Innovation? by: Girish Seshagiri
• Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting ñ Wednesday, 24 April 2013 ñ Topic: Is Six Sigma the Problem or the Solution by Monroe Ratchford
• March meting ñ Philly Section
• Final Board Minutes ñ February 2013
• Draft Board Minutes ñ March 2013
• Certification Examination Report ñ 8 April 2013
• March 2013 Meeting Presentation ñ Green Belt --> Black Belt ñ by Sion Weaver
• Spring 2013 Section Course ñ Certified Quality Auditor
• Master Certificate Program ñ Six Sigma

New or updated as of 15 March 2013
• Looking for a volunteer to serve as our section's Software SIG's co-chair
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 26 March 2013 ñ The Rise of Big Data and Data Science by Donald Miner
• Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting ñ Wednesday, 27 March 2013 ñ Topic: Sigma Quality Tools Workshop - Simulation - Design of Experiments - Statistical Process Control by Sion Weaver, CLSSMBB, CSSBB

New or updated as of 2 March 2013
• Final Board Minutes ñ January 2013
• Draft Board Minutes ñ February 2013
• March meeting ñ Philly Section
• Online CQA course ñ Old Colony Section

New or updated as of 19 February 2013
• Recent job postings ñ Quality Control Manager (MD)
• Final Board Minutes ñ December 2012
• Draft Board Minutes ñ January 2013
• Board Agenda ñ February 2013

New or updated as of 13 February 2013
• Recent job postings ñ Green Belt Business Process Analyst

New or updated as of 11 February 2013
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 26 February 2013 ñ Risk Management by Al Florence
• Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting ñ Wednesday, 27 February 2013 ñ Business process management and how Med Immuneís strategy is deployed end-to-end.

New or updated as of 26 January 2013
• Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting ñ Wednesday, 30 January 2013 ñ Topic: Business process management and how Med Immuneís strategy is deployed end-to-end.

New or updated as of 15 January 2013
• Recent job postings ñ Quality Control Manager of Fabrication
• Final Board Minutes ñ November 2012
• Draft Board Minutes ñ December 2012
• Board Agenda ñ January 2013

New or updated as of 11 January 2013
• Recent job postings ñ Metaldyne Quality Engineer

New or updated as of 7 January 2013
• January 2013 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 16 January 2013 - The Quality Journey to Mount Rainer by Nicholas Wulfekuhle to be held at the Vienna Amphora
• January 2013 Meeting Presentation ñ The Quality Journey to Mount Rainer by Nicholas Wulfekuhle
• February 2013 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 20 February 2013 - Quality Management versus Project Management by Kathleen Eaves to be held at the Herndon Amphora
• March 2013 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 20 March 2013 - From Greenbelt to Blackbelt by Sion Weaver
• 2013 Meeting schedule
• Recertification Report ñ December 2012

Archives 2012


New or updated as of 27 December 2012
• Recent job postings ñ Lean Six Sigma
• Certification Examination Report ñ 20 December 2012
• Tentative Spring 2013 Section Course ñ Certified Quality Auditor

New or updated as of 12 December 2012
• Draft Board Minutes ñ November 2012
• Final Board Minutes ñ October 2012
• Recent job postings ñ Senior Improvement Advisor
• Recent job postings ñ Vendor Quality Manager
• Recent job postings ñ Quality Engineer
• Recent job postings ñ Quality Manager
• January 2013 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 16 January 2013 ñ The Quality Journey to Mount Rainer by Nicholas Wulfekuhle

New or updated as of 12 November 2012
• Recent job posting ñ Quality Program Coordinator
• Board Agenda ñ November 2012

New or updated as of 25 October 2012
• November 2012 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 14 November 2012 at McCormick & Schmickís in Reston Town Center ñ The Future of ASQ by John Timmerman, ASQ Chair-Elect
• December 2012 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at the Herndon Amphora ñ Social Night
• October 2012 Meeting Presentation ñ Set Up Time Reduction - a LEAN TOOL by Gerald V. Clarke, LQA-Lean Quality Associates
• Draft Board Minutes ñ October 2012
• Final Board Minutes ñ September 2012
• Particpate in doctoral research as to what education and skills in the quality discipline will be important for graduating engineers.

New or updated as of 16 October 2012
• The Virginia Association for Healthcare Quality is hosting their 35th Annual Education Conference, Beyond the Numbers: Making Quality Count on October 25 and 26, 2012 at the Marriott West in Richmond, VA
• Certification Examination Report ñ 15 October 2012
• The Senate Productivity & Quality Award for Virginia (SPQA-VA) is recruiting Examiners for the 2013 Award Cycle
• Board Agenda ñ October 2012

New or updated as of 11 October 2012
• Software SIG meeting ñ Thursday, 23 October 2012 ñ Knowledge Extraction and Analysis of Software Systems for Modernization and Risk Management by Mike Oara and Rama S. Moorthy of Hatha Systems
• Recent job posting ñ Quality Assurance Engineer

New or updated as of 4 October 2012
• Revised Voice of the Customer Page

New or updated as of 24 September 2012
• Draft Board Minutes ñ September 2012
• Final Board Minutes ñ August 2012

New or updated as of 19 September 2012
• Board Agenda ñ September 2012
• Certification Examination Report ñ 13 September 2012

New or updated as of 18 September 2012
• The INFORMS Maryland Chapter ñ Tuesday October 9, 2012 ñ Presents Guest Speaker Dr. Karen Bursic, University of Pittsburgh, ìEngineering Education Research: Highlights from Successful Efforts to Improve Engineering Studentsí Preparation for a Global and Technical Societyî

New or updated as of 14 September 2012
• Software SIG meeting ñ Thursday, 25 September 2012 ñ ASQ Washington DC Software SIG ñ Agile Software Management Techniques by James Jamieson

New or updated as of 12 September 2012
• June 2012 Meeting Presentation ñ IT Service Quality amidst a World Gone Cloud by Bryan Ward, Director, Cloud Computing, Serco Inc

New or updated as of 6 September 2012
• Fall 2012 Section Course ñ Certified Quality Auditor
• The Philly ASQ Chapter ñ Presents its 2012/2013 Fall/Winter schedule including a tour of the battleship USS New Jersey!

New or updated as of 4 September 2012
• Recent job posting ñ Senior Quality Assurance Manager and SQA Process Engineer
• Draft Board Minutes ñ August 2012

New or updated as of 17 August 2012
• Recent job posting ñ Quality Assurance Manager
• Board Minutes ñ July 2012
• Software SIG meeting ñ Thursday, 30 August 2012 ñ ASQ Washington DC Software SIG ñ Software Security Assurance: Enabling Security Automation and Software Supply Chain Risk Management by: Joe Jarzombek, PMP, CSSLP
• August 2012 Meeting Presentation ñ Driving the Customer Experience Using Quality by John Goodman, Vice Chairman of TARP
• September 2012 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at the Herndon Amphora ñ Overcoming Obstacles to the Implementation of CMMi by Gerard Dache
• October 2012 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 17 October 2012 at the Vienna Amphora ñ Set Up Time Reduction - a LEAN TOOL by Gerald V. Clarke

New or updated as of 10 August 2012
• Recent job posting ñ Quality Assurance Specialist
• The INFORMS Maryland Chapter ñ Presents Guest Speaker Freeman Marvin ìVoting and Other Convergence Techniquesî

New or updated as of 6 August 2012
• August 2012 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 15 August 2012 at Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute, 14225 Newbrook Drive, Chantilly, VA, ñ Driving the Customer Experience Using Quality by John Goodman, Vice Chairman of TARP
• Draft Board Minutes ñ July 2012
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery ñ July 2012 ñ Social and Planning night at the Tysons Corner Ritz Carlton
• 2012 Virginia Forum for Excellence ñ will be held September 10-11 2012 in Richmond, VA
• Audit Division ñ Region 5 Audit Division Councilor and Deputy Councilor
• Section Leadership Committee ñ 2012 - 2013 oficers
• ASQ Position Descriptions ñ for Section officers and Committee Chairs

New or updated as of 18 July 2012
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 24 July 2012 ñ ASQ Washington DC Software SIG ñ Requirements-Management RequirementsóRequisite Doors to Success by Alfred Kromholz
• July 2012 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 18 July 2012 at the Tysons Corner Ritz Carlton ñ Our Annual Social and Planning Event
• Draft Board Minutes ñ June 2012

New or updated as of 19 June 2012
• Board Agenda ñ June 2012

New or updated as of 14 June 2012
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 26 June 2012 ñ ASQ Washington DC Software SIG ñ Systems Engineering Management Process by Jim Todd
• Certification Examination Report - 2 June 2012

New or updated as of 7 June 2012
• June 2012 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 20 June 2012 at the Vienna Amphora ñ IT Service Quality amidst a World Gone Cloud< by Bryan Ward
• Recent job posting ñ Senior QA Engineer

New or updated as of 22 May 2012
• March 2012 Meeting Presentation ñ ASQ Certification: The Basics and Benefits by Robert Zimman
• April 2012 Meeting Presentation ñ Operational Risk Management + Six Sigma = Success by Roberta Pek
• May 2012 Meeting Presentation ñ Using the PM tool kit in Process Improvement by Tim Shrum
• Draft Board Minutes ñ May 2012
• Board Minutes ñ April 2012
• Lean Six Sigma Special Interest Group ñ Mentoring and Saturday Seminar programs
• The Washington DC Chapter of the Project Management Institute presents Two Great Networking Opportunities

New or updated as of 11 May 2012
• Board Agenda ñ May 2012

New or updated as of 4 May 2012
• May 2012 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 16 May 2012 at the Herndon Amphora ñ Using the PM tool kit in Process Improvement by Tim Shrum
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 29 May 2012 ñ ASQ Washington DC Software SIG ñ Tuesday ñ Software Assurance Metrics And Tool Evaluation (SAMATE) Overview by Tim Boland
• Draft Board Minutes ñ April 2012
• Board Minutes ñ March 2012

New or updated as of 13 April 2012
• Change of location for April 2012 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 18 April 2012 ñ Now at the Amphora restaurant in Vienna rather than Herndon!

New or updated as of 11 April 2012
• Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), National Capital Chapter presents LEADERSHIP, IIE and YOU
• You only have one more week left to apply for an ASQ certification exam! Upcoming Exam Date: June 2, 2012 -- Application Deadline: April 13, 2012

New or updated as of 3 April 2012
• April 2012 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 18 April 2012 ñ Operational Risk Management + Six Sigma = Success by Roberta Pek
• Spring 2012 Section Course ñ Certified Quality Auditor
• Certification Examination Report - 3 March 2012
• Draft Board Minutes ñ March 2012
• Board Minutes ñ February 2012
• Section Leadership Committee Contact Info Revised and Vacancies

New or updated as of 16 March 2012
• Spring 2012 Section Course ñ Certified Six Sigma Green Belt Refresher
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 27 March 2012 ñ Exposing Security Risks For Commercial Mobile Devices (CMDs) by Jeff Voas and Angelos Stavrou
• Recent resume postings
• The Quest for ExcellenceÆ Conference The Official Conference of the Award
• The INFORMS Maryland Chapter Presents ìIntroduction to Data Miningî by Guest Speaker Dr. Shaun Gittens

New or updated as of 28 February 2012
• February 2012 Newsletter
• March 2012 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 21 March 2012 ñ ASQ Certification: The Basics and Benefits by Robert Zimman
• Recent job posting ñ Black Belt/Master Black Belt
• Draft Board Minutes ñ February 2012

New or updated as of 7 February 2012
• February 2012 Meeting ñ Wednesday, 15 February 2012 ñ Emerging Role of the Federal CIO by Gloria Parker
• Proposed Board Agenda ñ February 2012
• Draft Board Minutes ñ January 2012
• In Memorial ñ Larry Wilkins
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery ñ January 2012 ñ Lost Rhino Tour
• Section Leadership Committee Contact Info Revised and Vacancies
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 21 February 2012 ñ Understanding How the Bad Guys Attack Your Software: CAPEC by Sean Barnum
• You are invited ñ ASQ 509 Social ñ Wednesday, 22 Feb 2012

New or updated as of 14 January 2012
• January 2012 Meeting ñ Tuesday, 24 January 2012 ñ Craft Brewery Operations at the Lost Rhino Brewery
• Draft Board Minutes ñ December 2011
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 24 January 2012 ñ Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project by Dr. David A. Ferrucci
• ASQ Section 0511 accepts credit cards
• 2012 Meeting schedule

Archives 2011


New or updated as of 5 December 2011
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 20 December 20 2011 ñ Software Assurance: Enabling Enterprise Resilience and Software Supply Chain Risk Management by Joe Jarzombek
• North Carolina State University ñ Need Some Fast PDHs?
• Recent resume postings

New or updated as of 28 November 2011
• Draft Board Minutes ñ November 2011
• Sign up for free Webinar ñ Why Food Safety Management Systems, Quality Improvement and Environmental Management Best Practices Are Critical For Survival
• Joint Design and Construction Quality Meeting of ASQ, ASCE, and TRB ñ Wednesday, Jan 25 2012

New or updated as of 17 November 2011
• December 2011 Meeting ñ 14 December ñ Social Night
• November 2011 Meeting Presentation ñ Good to Great Process Improvement by Gerard Dache, Common Sense Solutions

New or updated as of 14 November 2011
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 29 November 2011 ñ Leveraging Semantic Web Technologies for Improved Decision Making by Samuel Chance
• Recent job posting ñ API Quality Certification Associate

New or updated as of 4 November 2011
• November 2011 Meeting ñ 16 November ñ Good to Great Process Improvement by Gerard Dache, CMMi and ISO consulting
• Recent job posting ñ Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
• Draft Board Minutes ñ October 2011
• Final Board Minutes ñ September 2011
• Restricted Payment Options - Credit cards temporarily not accepted online as the section changes providers

New or updated as of 17 October 2011
• Recent job posting ñ API Quality Certification Associate
• World Quality Month ñ Quality is Calling ñ Spread the Word!

New or updated as of 12 October 2011
• Recent job posting ñ Quality Engineer Manager, Centreville
• The Senate Productivity & Quality Award for Virginia (SPQA-VA) is recruiting Examiners for the 2012 Award Cycle

New or updated as of 6 October 2011
• Message from the Chair ñ State of the Section
• October 2011 Meeting ñ 19 October ñ Enhancing Quality and Performance to the Federal Investigative Service by Eric Lippold, Executive Program Director, Division Management, Federal Investigative Service
• Education Newsletter ñ Fall 2011
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 25 October 2011 ñ Predicting Software Quality Early in the Software Development Lifecycle and Producing Secure Software by Girish Seshagiri
• Draft Board Minutes ñ September 2011
• Final Board Minutes ñ May - August 2011
• September 2011 Meeting Presentation ñ Quality on the Dulles Metrorail Project by Jon D. Christensen, Project QA/QC and Safety Manager, Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
• Deadline for Certification Exams ñ The application deadline for the December CQE, CQA, SSGB, CCT, CPGP, CQIA, CQPA, and CSQE examinations is October 14.
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery ñ Quality on the Dulles Metrorail Project presentation
• Sign up for our section's Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) ñ Fall 2011 Course
• Recent job posting ñ Quality Manager, WV
• North Carolina State University ñ Fall Classes

New or updated as of 16 September 2011
• Topic narrative posted for September 2011 Meeting - 21 September - Quality on the Dulles Metrorail Project by Jon D. Christensen, Project QA/QC and Safety Manager, Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
• Sign up for our section's Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) Fall 2011 Course
• Recent job posting: Quality Engineer Supervisor - Luray

New or updated as of 6 September 2011
• September 2011 Meeting - 21 September - Quality on the Dulles Metrorail Project by Jon D. Christensen, Project QA/QC and Safety Manager, Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 20 September 2011 ñ How Technical Leads Were Transformed into Effective Project Managers in 9 Months by Rita Hadden

New or updated as of 20 Aug 2011
• Draft Board Minutes for August 11
• July 2011 Meeting Presentation - Leading IT Innovation to Improve Data Quality, Efficiency, and Performance by Mark Day, Chief Technology Officer of HUD
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 23 August 2011 ñ Leveraging Semantic Web Technologies for Improved Decision Making by: Samuel Chance

New or updated as of 27 July 2011
• August 2011 Meeting - 17 August - Social night - Join us for chips'n dips - tell your Section Officers what you think (about ASQ!)
• Draft Board Minutes for July 11

New or updated as of 15 July 2011
• Voice of the Customer Survey For the next fortnight the Voice of the Customer committee is conducting a survey about ASQ Section 0511 events so that we may serve you better (closes 29 July 2011).

New or updated as of 11 July 2011
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 26 July 2011 ñ Quality in 2011: A Survey of the State of the Art by Capers Jones
• 2011 Virginia Forum for Excellence will be held September 7-8 2011 in Richmond, VA

New or updated as of 29 June 2011
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery - Sunset Hills Vineyard tasting and tour
• July 2011 Meeting - 20 July - Leading IT Innovation to Improve Data Quality, Efficiency, and Performance by Mark Day, Chief Technology Officer of HUD

New or updated as of 20 June 2011
• Draft Board Minutes for June 11
• Final Board Minutes for May 11
• Recent job posting: Principal Quality Assurance Analyst
• Recent job posting: Senior Principal Quality Assurance Analyst
• Recent job posting: Quality Assurance Engineer

New or updated as of 7 June 2011
• Certification Examination Report - 4 June 2011

New or updated as of 1 June 2011
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 28 June 2011 ñ The Smart Grid: Power for the 21st Century by George W. Arnold,

New or updated as of 20 May 2011
• June 2011 Meeting - Saturday, 25 June - Quality in Action, Good Wine Waits for No Man - Wine Tasting at the Sunset Hill Vineyard, Purcellville, VA
• May 2011 Meeting Presentation - Federal Government Performance Metrics And Budgeting by Paul Posner, Director Public Administration Program, George Mason University
• Draft Board Minutes for May 11

New or updated as of 17 May 2011
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday, 24 May 2011: Overview of the NIST Risk Management Framework as described in SP 800-37 by Lance Kelson

New or updated as of 12 May 2011
• May 2011 Meeting - 18 May - Evolution of Quality Within the Federal Government by Paul L. Posner, Director of the Public Administration Program at George Mason University

New or updated as of 10 May 2011
• May 2011 Meeting - 18 May - Speaker Paul L. Posner, Director of the Public Administration Program at George Mason University
• Proctors needed for Sat, 4 June 2010 ASQ certification exams
• Help maintain our section website

New or updated as of 26 April 2011
• May 2011 Meeting - 18 May - Save the date!
• April 2011 Meeting Presentation - 200 Years of Rugby ñ A Lesson in Continuous Improvement, by Paul Meyers, Director for Corporate Quality, Project Performance Corporation
• June 2010 Meeting Presentation - Interactive Restaurant Experience, by Great American Restaurants

New or updated as of 12 April 2011
• April 2011 Meeting - 20 April - 200 Years of Rugby ñ A Lesson in Continuous Improvement by Paul Meyers
• Software SIG meeting ñ Tuesday April 26, 2011: Process Improvement and Sun Tzu's The Art of War Mashup by Barbara Dreon Canody

New or updated as of 26 March 2011
• March Meeting Presentation - Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, by Dr. Harry Hertz, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Program Director
• Philadelphia Section 505 - Teaming Up With The FDA To Avoid Or Manage A Product Recall, 3 May 2011

New or updated as of 15 March 2011
• Recent job posting: Global Director of Quality

New or updated as of 10 March 2011
• Certification Examination Report - 5 March 2011
• New Payment Options - online and via form

New or updated as of 2 March 2011
• March 2011 Meeting - 16 March - Dr. Harry Hertz, program director for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
• Draft Board Minutes for Feb 11
• Approved Board Minutes for Dec 10 and Jan 11
• Software SIG meeting - Tuesday 22 March 2011: Quality & Security "Mesh" within the Systems Development Life Cycle by Rhonda Farrell
• Section Leadership Committee Contact Info Revised
• Recent job postings: QC Representative and Lean 6 Σ Black Belt Consultant
• Sign up for our section's Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) Spring 2011 Course

New or updated as of 11 Feb 2011
• Draft Board Minutes for Dec 10 and Jan 11
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery - Micron Virginia meeting and factory tour
• Software SIG meeting - Tuesday February 22, 2011: A Journey into Cloud Computing ó An Agencyís Experience by Asghar Noor
• New Section Phone Number

New or updated as of 3 Feb 2011
• February 2011 Meeting info - 16 February - Change Management
• New Programs Chair - John Mullins
• January Meeting Presentation - Quality at Micron Technology Virginia by Ernesto Roccatagliata, Quality and Workforce Development Manager

New or updated as of 19 Jan 2011
• Software SIG meeting - Tuesday, 25 January 2011: H1N1: The Forgotten Pandemic by: Thomas A. Neal II, MD, MPH

New or updated as of 14 Jan 2011
• January 2011 Meeting info revised - 19 January - Micron Plant Tour
• Nominations for 2011-2012 Section Leadership positions now being accepted

New or updated as of 12 Jan 2011
• January 2011 Meeting info - 19 January - Micron Plant Tour
• December 2010 Newsletter
• Get a FREE diner; just come to the meeting (RSVP required)!!
• Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting - Wednesday, 26 January 2011: Security within the Systems Development Life Cycle by Ms. Rhonda Farrell

Archives 2010


New or updated as of 09 Dec 2010
• Six Sigma Simplified - Quick Reference Card
• SPC Simplified - Quick Reference Card - Quick Reference Card
• Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting - Wednesday, 14 December 2010: Holiday Networking Event
• Software SIG meeting - Tuesday, 21 December 2010: Configuration Management by Al Florence

New or updated as of 19 Nov 2010
• Draft Board November 2010 Minutes
• Board October 2010 Minutes
• Board September 2010 Minutes
• November Meeting Presentation - Developing A Checklist, What Is The Audit Purpose? by Robert J. Orkin
• December 2010 Meeting info - 15 December - Social Evening - No Charge

New or updated as of 10 Nov 2010
• ASQ Section 0511 Photo Gallery - Sweetwater Tavern Interactive Restaurant Experience

New or updated as of 5 Nov 2010
• Recent job postings
• November 2010 Meeting info - 17 November - Developing A Checklist, What Is The Audit Purpose? by Robert J. Orkin
• Update to the 2010/2011 Board and Executive membership.
• Northern Shenandoah Valley Section 1131 - Last Chance To Register for "Baldrige in Education"

New or updated as of 30 Oct 2010
• October Newsletter
• November 2010 Meeting info - 17 November - Developing A Checklist, What Is The Audit Purpose? by Robert J. Orkin
• November Meeting Presentation - Developing A Checklist, What Is The Audit Purpose? by Robert J. Orkin
• November Software SIG meeting - Tuesday, 30 November 2010: Situational Awareness of Risk Management Processes: Increasing Risk Analysis Effectiveness by Kelly Yamaguchi
• Advanced interest in the Spring 2011 Certified Quality Auditor Training
• Addition to the 2010/2011 Board and Executive membership.

New or updated as of 26 Oct 2010
• Draft Board October 2010 Minutes
• Draft Board September 2010 Minutes
• September Meeting Presentation - Quality in a Solo Dental Practice: Theory and Application, James Eaves, DDS
• October Meeting Presentation - Aviation Mishap Investigation, Gregg Monaco
• October Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting - Wednesday, 27 October 2010: Quality Systems Compared and Contrasted by Eugene Kirsch
• Fall 2010 Certified Quality Auditor Training - Canceled
• Certification Examination Report - 2 October 2010

New or updated as of 13 Oct 2010
• Recent job postings
• Software SIG meeting - 26 October 2010 - Supercomputing ñ Crayís Hardware and Software Technology ñ Product and Custom by Dan Poznanovic

New or updated as of 8 Oct 2010
• October 2010 Meeting info - 20 October - Aviation Mishap Investigation, Gregg Monaco
• Fall 2010 Training Opportunities - Certified Quality Auditor
• Washington, DC & Maryland Metro Section 509 - October activities update
• Northern Shenandoah Valley Section 1131 - October & November Dinner meetings - register by 11 Oct 10 for the October meeting

New or updated as of 10 Sep 2010
• September 2010 Meeting info - 15 September - Quality in a Solo Dental Practice: Theory and Application, James Eaves, DDS
• Proctors needed for Sat, 2 October 2010 ASQ certification exams
• Recent job postings
• Recent resume postings
• Recent member recommendations
• Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) Refresher Course Taught in a Live Webinar Format

New or updated as of 23 August 2010
• Draft Board August 2010 Minutes
• August Meeting Presentation - Quality and Customer Service, Sid Jaffe
• Recent job postings
• Software SIG meeting - 31 August 2010 - Simulation and Virtual Reality for Medical Applications, Presented by Jim Chen
• Washington, DC & Maryland Metro Section 509 - August activities update

New or updated as of 12 August 2010
• August 2010 Meeting info - 18 August - Quality and Customer Service
• New 2010/2011 Board and Executive members.
• New Email Addresses
• Draft Board July 2010 Minutes
• Approved Board June 2010 Minutes

New or updated as of 13 July 2010
• July 2010 Meeting info - 21 July - Join us for a free Social Night!

New or updated as of 11 June 2010
• Certification Examination Report - 5 June 2010
• Vice President Quality

New or updated as of 2 June 2010
• June 2010 Meeting info - 16 June - Interactive Restaurant Experience
• Draft Board May 2010 Minutes
• Virtual Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence Refresher Course
• Spring Education Newsletter
• Software SIG meeting - 22 June 2010 - So You Want to Buy a COTS Product
• Washington, DC & Maryland Metro Section 509 - June activities updates
• One Proctor needed for Sat, 6 June 2010 ASQ certification exams
• May Meeting Presentation - Importance Of Leadership And Organizational Culture In Business Transformation, Keihan Sedghi
• If anyone has a submission for this quarter's newsletter, please send it to the newsletter editor by June 9th so it can be include in the June Newsletter
• Identify the most images on our home page, and you can win a free dinner at our September Section meeting.
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

New or updated as of 10 May 2010
• May 2010 Meeting info - 19 May - Importance of Leadership and organizational culture in Business Transformation by Keihan Sedghi
• May Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting - Wednesday, 26 May 2010: Leveraging the Baldrige framework to take your Lean Six Sigma deployment to the next level by Dr. Patricia Selcher
• Washington, DC & Maryland Metro Section 509 - May activities updates
• Proctors needed for Sat, 7 June 2014 ASQ certification exams

New or updated as of 28 April 2010
• Washington, DC & Maryland Metro Section 509 - April/May activities updates
• DRS-Technical Services for a Quality Manager
• Quality Control Manager - C4I/IT / AV / Datacenter

New or updated as of 22 April 2010
• Draft Board April 2010 Minutes
• Approved Board March 2010 Minutes
• April Meeting Presentation - The Odds are Against Auditing Steven Walfish, MS, MBA, President, Statistical Outsourcing Services
• Voice of the Customer Board Position vacant - If interested please contact the section chair

New or updated as of 16 April 2010
• April 2010 Meeting info - 21 April - The Odds are Against Auditing Steven Walfish, MS, MBA, President, Statistical Outsourcing Services
• April Meeting Presentation - The Odds are Against Auditing Steven Walfish, MS, MBA, President, Statistical Outsourcing Services
• April Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting - Wednesday, 28 April 2010: A Practical Guide for Effective LSS Presentations by Mr. John Wilsford
• Washington, DC & Maryland Metro Section 509 - April/May activities updates
• Draft Board March 2010 Minutes
• Approved Board February 2010 Minutes

New or updated as of 12 March 2010
• March 2010 Meeting info - 17 March - Creatively applying CMMI-SVC in A VERY SMALL CONSULTING FIRM by Bill Smith, CEO, Leading Edge Process Consultants LLC
• Certification Examination Report - 6 March 2010
• January Meeting Presentation - ASQ's Future Study: The Forces of Change (Paul E. Borawski, CAE, Executive Director and Chief Strategic Officer, ASQ Headquarters Executive Staff)
• March Meeting Presentation - Creatively applying CMMI-SVC in A VERY SMALL CONSULTING FIRM (Bill Smith, CEO, Leading Edge Process Consultants LLC)
• Invitation to ASQ members for Planned Care Collaborative - Harrisburg PA Section 503 - 15 March 2010
• ISO Standards Day Seminar - George Mason University - 18 March 2010
• March Software SIG meeting - 25 March 2010
• March Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting - 31 March 2010, ìSystems Thinking Conceptsî by Mr. Greg Foster, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, CPS Professional Services
• Washington, DC & Maryland Metro Section 509 - March/April activities updates

New or updated as of 18 February 2010
• Now Is the Time! We are looking for volunteers to serve in all section leadership positions.
• February Meeting Presentation - Process Flow Diagram: The Foundation of Process Failure Mode Effects and Analysis (PFMEA) (Jim Davis, General Dynamics Amphibious Systems)
• Draft Board February 2010 Minutes
• Approved Board January 2010 Minutes

New or updated as of 16 February 2010
• Proctors needed for Sat, 6 March 2010 ASQ certification exams
• Washington, DC & Maryland Metro Section 509 - February/March activities updates
• February Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting - 24 Feb 2010, ìCoulda-Woulda-Shouldaî: An Analysis of LSS Tools used in the Army Training Support Community" by Messrs. Rodolfo A. Morales Miranda and Alberto Grossmark

New or updated as of 9 February 2010
• Washington, DC & Maryland Metro Section 509 - revised February activities - vote on where the February Software SIG Meeting will be held

New or updated as of 2 February 2010
• February 2010 Meeting info - 17 February - Process Flow Diagram: The Foundation of PFMEA, Jim Davis, General Dynamics Amphibious Systems
• Draft minutes for January 2010 Board Meeting
• Minutes for Sept - Dec 2009 Board Meetings
• More pictures of Board Members
• Washington, DC & Maryland Metro Section 509 - revised February activities (our own Bob Zimman will be a featured speaker).

New or updated as of 20 January 2010
• Agenda for January Board Meeting
• Draft minutes for November and December 2009 Board Meetings
• More pictures of Board Members

New or updated as of 18 January 2010
• Washington, DC & Maryland Metro Section 509 - revised January & February activities (our own Bob Zimman will be a featured speaker).

New or updated as of 12 January 2010
• December Newsletter
• Washington, DC & Maryland Metro Section 509 - revised January & February activities
• Quickie Quality Engineer (PDF) (January 10)
• Pictures of Board Members
• March Certification Exam Signup Deadline

Archives 2009


New or updated as of 29 December 2009
• Posted 2010 Exam Dates & Application Deadlines
• Washington, DC & Maryland Metro Section 509 - revised January activities

New or updated as of 21 December 2009
• January 2010 Meeting info - 20 January - Future of Quality by Paul E. Borawski, Executive Director and Chief Strategic Officer, ASQ
• Washington, DC & Maryland Metro Section 509 - January activities
• ASQ Washington DC Software SIG - 26 January 2010 - The American Society for Quality (ASQ) Software Division: Our Priorities for 2010-2009, and What it Means for You by: Nicole Radzwill, PhD, MBA. ASQ Software Division Chair

New or updated as of 15 December 2009
• Agenda for December Board Meeting

New or updated as of 11 December 2009
• Coordinator - Planned Care Opportunity (PDF) (December 09)
• Section 0509 December Continuous Process Improvement SIG Meeting canceled
• Section 0509 Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence Refresher Course
• Section 0509 Certified Six Sigma Black Belt Refresher Course

New or updated as of 8 December 2009
• Recent Certification Examinations Reports and Summaries
• Tips, Trips, and Traps Taking Certification Exams
• Section 0509 activities
• ASQ509's Biomed/Biotech SIG in Rockville - 10 Dec 2009 - CDC's Disease Detectives - Epidemic Intelligence Services
• ASQ Washington DC Software SIG - 15 December 2009 - Quantifying Software Reliability and Readiness by: Jack Olivieri and Abbaya Asthana
• The Senate Productivity & Quality Award for Virginia (SPQA-VA) is recruiting Examiners for the 2010 Award Cycle
• November Meeting Presentation - Health Care Quality - Karin Cox, RN, MSN, Quality Consultant: Critical Care & Neurosciences Services
• Draft Board November Minutes
• Approved Board October Minutes
• Identify the Quality Leaders on our home page

New or updated as of 4 December 2009
• December 2009 Meeting info 16 December - Social Meeting
• January 2010 Meeting info 20 January - Future of Quality by Paul E. Borawski, Executive Director and Chief Strategic Officer, ASQ
• Section Operating Agreement 29 April 09
• Trish Selcher is our Voice of the Customer
• Revised Newsletter submission guidelines
• Revised Newsletter archives
• Revised Meeting Attendance Documentation guidance

New or updated as of 18 November 2009
• Reference Materials Guidelines for Certification Exams
• Section 0509 activities
• TFTC QA Manager (PDF) (November 09)

New or updated as of 11 November 2009
• November Meeting info 18 November - Health Care Quality
• Proctors needed for Sat, 5 December ASQ certification exams
• October Meeting Presentation - Quality Assurance Principles for Child Safety Presentation
• QA Manager (PDF) (November 09)
• Draft Board Minutes for July to October

New or updated as of 14 October 2009
• October Meeting info 21 October - Child Safety
• October Software SIG meeting - 27 October 2009, Agile Methods by: Camille Bell
• September Newsletter

New or updated as of 9 September 2009
• September Meeting info 16 September - National membership Retention

New or updated as of 13 August 2009
• Draft July Board Minutes

New or updated as of 7 August 2009
• August Meeting info 19 August
• New 2009/2010 Board and Executive members.
• New 2009 Board email addresses.
• Section Web access training 22 August
• August Software SIG meeting - 25 August 2009, An Introduction to Structured Argumentation within Assurance Cases by: Dr. Tim Kelly, University of York, UK

New or updated as of 7 July 2009
• July Meeting info - Social meeting with Section Chair, Larry Wilkins, giving a brief discussion on the World Conference, 15 July

New or updated as of 4 June 2009
• Special June Meeting info - Please register before Friday 5 June! - John Timmerman, VP, Ritz Carlton Corporate Operations, Pentagon Ritz, 10 June
• Peg Bloome, our Examining Chair and Chief Proctor, will be moving to Florida and has resigned her posts. The section thanks Peg for her service to the section and wishes her well in her move to a new location. As a result the section is looking for a volunteer to fill the positions she left.
• June Software SIG meeting - 23 June 2009, CMMI for Services (CMMI-SVC) ñ Cost-Effective Approaches to Early Use by Marilyn Ginsberg-Finner
• Software QA (PDF) (June 09)
• Senior QA Analyst (PDF) (June 09)

New or updated as of 21 May 2009
• Special June Meeting info - Mark the date! - John Timmerman, VP, Ritz Carlton Corporate Operations, Pentagon Ritz, 10 June
• Performance Users Group Meeting on Thursday, June 11th at the University of Maryland. The topic is "The MPEA Examiner Experience"
• Approved April Board Minutes
• Draft May Board Minutes
• May Meeting Presentation - How To Get The Most Benefit From Your Internal Audits

New or updated as of 14 May 2009
• May Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting - 27 May 2009, "Metrics 101" by Minh B. Tran
• Approved March Board Minutes
• Draft April Board Minutes

New or updated as of 12 May 2009
• May Section Meeting info How To Get The Most Benefit From Your Internal Audits, Speaker: Robert Zimman, CQA
• Special June Meeting info - Save the date! - John Timmerman, VP, Ritz Carlton Corporate Operations, Pentagon Ritz, 10 June
• "Rapid Improvement Events, Keys to Kaizen Event Success and Sustainability" offered by VPMEP on May 20th, in Danville, VA.

New or updated as of 6 May 2009
• May Bio/Med SIG meeting - ASQ509's Biomed/Biotech SIG in Rockville - 7 May 2009, Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Translational Medicine presented by Cathy H. Wu, PhD and A Systematic Framework of Genome Screening Seeking a Predictive Genomic Composite Biomarker for Potential Treatment Individualization Presented by Su Jane Wang, PhD
• Special June Meeting info - Save the date! - John Timmerman, VP, Ritz Carlton Corporate Operations, Pentagon Ritz, 10 June

New or updated as of 17 April 2009
• April Bio/Med SIG meeting - ASQ509's Biomed/Biotech SIG in Rockville - 23 April 2009, How Aquaculture Research Is Helping to Solve Questions about Melamine Toxicity presented by Renate Reimschuessel and Melamine in Food presented by Yan Gu
• April Meeting Presentation ASQ ìMake Good Greatî by J. Eric Whichard, Deputy Regional Director / RD Elect
• Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) Mtech News and Events: April 17, 2009

New or updated as of 6 April 2009
• April Meeting info
• April Software SIG meeting - 28 April 2009, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Implementation and Interoperability Standard (RIIS) by Ed Coyne
• Certified Quality Auditor - 5-weekend accelerated course
• Corporate QC Manager (PDF) (April 09)
• Fort Benning QC Manager (PDF) (April 09)
• Policies/Procedures Analyst (PDF) (April 09)
• Approved February Board Minutes
• Draft March Board Minutes
• QUEST FOR EXCELLENCE CONFERENCE - April 20-22 - Washington, DC

New or updated as of 18 March 2009
• Special March Meeting info - If you have already registered by sending an email to the Section 0511 Programs Chair, we ask that you pre-pay and register for the 25 March 2009 meeting. Forrest W. Breyfogle III, will speak on Beyond Lean Six Sigma at the WooLaeOak Restaurant 8240 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA 22182 (Tyson's Corner )
• One-Day Workshop - Payment and registration information for the 26 March 2009, Going Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard: The Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) System
• March Software SIG meeting - 24 March 2009, Building Survivable Verification Systems in Engineering and Business Systems by: JidÈ B. Odubiyi, Ph.D
• March Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting - 25 March 2009, Forrest W. Breyfogle III, speaker on Beyond Lean Six Sigma
• Operations Research Analyst (PDF) (March 09)
• Spring 2009 Education Newsletter
• Spring 2009 Training Opportunities - Certified Quality Auditor
• Education Volunteer sought to assist the section in providing liaison to local schools, setting up and running an Education Special Interest Group, etc.

New or updated as of 23 February 2009
• February Software SIG meeting - 24 February 2009, Independent Verification Approaches for FDAís Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories by: Brian Fitzgerald
• February Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting - 25 February 2009, Peter Banfield, Managing Director, Management Consulting Services, Lean Six Sigma Solutions, BearingPoint Management & Technology Consultants
• Special March Meeting info - 25 March 2009, Forrest W. Breyfogle III, speaker on Beyond Lean Six Sigma WooLaeOak Restaurant 8240 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA 22182 (Tyson's Corner )
• One-Day Workshop - 26 March 2009, Going Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard: The Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) System

New or updated as of 10 February 2009
• February Meeting info
• Special March Meeting info
• One-Day Workshop: Going Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard: The Integrated Enterprise Excellence (IEE) System
• January Meeting Presentation IEEE 829 - 2008 IEEE Standard for Software and System Test Documentation
• Pee Dee Section 1124 (Florence SC) is holding a Continuous Improvement Conference in March
• Senior QA Process Analyst position
• February Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting

New or updated as of 07 January 2009
• January 28, 2009 Lean Six Sigma Meeting "Why Organizations Fail" by Sergey Ivanov, Ph.D.
• Senior Medical QA needed
• The Maryland Performance Excellence Awards (MPEA) 2009 Conference & Awards Ceremony on 23 March 2009

Archives 2008


New or updated as of 31 December 2008
• January Meeting info
• Section 0511 is looking for a Historian
• Section 0511 meeting dates for 2009
• Approved November Board Minutes
• Draft December Board Minutes
• Section 1108, which covers a good part of the Shenandoah Valley, and Charlottesville is hosting a reliability seminar in February
• Pee Dee Section 1124 (Florence SC) is in the process of planning a Continuous Improvement Conference in March
• Performance Users Group Meeting on Thursday, January 8th at the University of Maryland. The topic is "Baldrige Criteria Results Category: How to Select, Measure and Present Results in an Application.
• The Maryland Performance Excellence Awards (MPEA) program will transition from the University of Maryland in April 2009
• A New Subsection for Frederick, Maryland?
• Six Sigma Black Belt Needed
• Linked-In Discussions
• The section is looking for help in redesigning its website.
• Approved October Board Minutes
• Draft November Board Minutes

New or updated as of 4 December 2008
• 2009 World Conference on Quality and Improvement
• December Software SIG meeting - Service-Oriented Acquisition by Chris Gunderson

New or updated as of 21 November 2008
• December Meeting info
• November Meeting Presentation
• Approved October Board Minutes
• Draft November Board Minutes
• Updated section board contact info

New or updated as of 3&6 November 2008
• November Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting The Top Eight Reasons Six Sigma Projects Fail, originally presented at 2008 ASQ World Conference
• November Software SIG meeting DoD Enterprise Ontology Support by: Dr Glenda Hayes
• November Performance Excellence Users Group - Baldrige Criteria Process Categories: What Do They Mean and How to Respond to Them

New or updated as of 25 October 2008
• November Meeting info
• October Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting Michael A. Kirby, Former Deputy Under Secretary of the Army, (Business Transformation)
• October Software SIG meeting Root Cause Analysis for Customer Reported Defects
• Planning Transition from Development to Production Position
• Approved September Board Minutes
• Draft October Board Minutes

New or updated as of 7 October 2008
• October Meeting info
• NISH Senior Quality Manager in Tyson's Corner
• Approved August Board Minutes
• September Meeting Presentation

New or updated as of 21 October 2008
• October 29 Lean Six Sigma SIG meeting

New or updated as of 7 September 2008
• September Meeting info
• ASQ Delaware Section (506) 35th Annual Quality Conference/Regional Training, September 25, 2008
• ASQ - KAPE Performance Excellence Conference and Awards Banquet. September 22 & 23, 2008
• Director, Standards and Certification (PDF) (7 Sept 08)
• ASQ Section 0511 CQA Fall 2008 Course Announcement
• August Meeting Presentation

New or updated as of 18 August 2008
• Posted August Meeting info
• Virginia Forum for Excellence to hear how Virginia's leading organizations are Keeping Pace with the Speed of Change!
• University of Maryland Technology Start-Up Boot Camp Friday, September 12, 2008
• PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE USERS GROUP "The Organizational Profile"
• Innovation Management Program
• Electrical and Computer Engineering Centennial Weekend, Sept. 26-27

New or updated as of 12 July 2008
• New section email addresses
• Board May minutes & June draft minutes
• 08-09 Board membership
• No Summer Lean Six Sigma SIG meetings

New or updated as of 9 June 2008
• Posted July Meeting info
• Performance Excellence Users Group

New or updated as of 6 June 2008
• Updated June Software SIG meeting information

New or updated as of 3 June 2008
• Posted June Meeting info
• Emphasized how to get activities log
• MPEA EXAMINER APPLICATION DEADLINE COMING SOON -- Apply to Become a MPEA Examiner by June 16

New or updated as of 19 May 2008
• Posted May Meeting info

New or updated as of 22 April 2008
• Re-organized Section Minutes info

New or updated as of 8 April 2008
• Posted April Meeting info

New or updated as of 18 March 2008
• QA Specialist Position

New or updated as of 14 March 2008
• Maryland Performance Excellence Awards

New or updated as of 8 March 2008
• Posted March Meeting info
• Updated March SIG meetings information

New or updated as of 21 February 2008
• Spring 2008 CQA Training Announcement
• Updated 6 Sigma SIG meeting information

New or updated as of 20 February 2008
• Weather-related cancellation policy and link
• Added 2008 meeting dates

New or updated as of 18 February 2008
• Posted 2008 & 2009 Exam Dates & Application Deadlines
• Posted February Meeting info
• Posted Jan and February 2008 meeting presentations
• Posted February Software SIG meeting notice
• Posted new Volunteer Opportunity