BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20141102T020000 RDATE:20141102T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150206T055200Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150218T193000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150218T173000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150206T055200Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150206T055200Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250467798 DESCRIPTION:SQAUG \;\nPresents: \;\n \;\nUsing Pre-mortem Meetin gs \;\nto Predict and Prevent Failures \;\n \;\nby Julie Green& #13\;\n \;\nat \;\nCon-Way \;\n2055 NW Savier\, Portland\, OR 97209 \;\non \;\nWednesday February 18\, 2015 \;\n 5:30pm unti l 7:30pm \;\n \;\nEvent is FREE and Open to the Public \;\n 3\;\nPost-Mortems or Retrospective Meetings can be too little too late. Learn how to increase your ability to predict failures by 30% by holdin g a Pre-mortem meeting. Using the Pre-mortem strategy you can stop the failures from ever occurring. \;\n \;\nAbout Our Speaker: Julie Gr een has been a QA Engineer for 10 years and has experience with Agile an d Waterfall methodologies. In her research on Pre-mortems she has conta cted the inventor\, Gary Klein\, and is in discussions with two of his c olleagues who use Pre-mortem meetings in their work. She is currently lo oking for a group willing to try a Pre-mortem discussion. She can be co ntacted at julie.a.green@gmail.com. \;\nAgenda: \;\n5:30-6:00PM: Pizza and Networking \;\n6:00-6:15PM: SQAUG Announcements \;\n6:1 5-7:30PM: Presentation/Q&\;A \;\n \;\nDetails: \;\n· Event is Free to the public \;\n· Onsite parking (directions below) \; \n· Light Hors d'oeuvres and beverages will be served \;\n· No RSVP is required to attend \;\n \;\nSQAUG is Portland/Vancouver area’s only Software Quality Assurance User Group! We are BRAND NEW\, and woul d like to extend a warm welcome to everyone who would like to participat e in a user group dedicated to growing the Quality Assurance field. \;\n \;\nSQAUG is made up of a group of SQA professionals who have ba nded together in an open forum to learn from each other through a series of interactive discussions\, engaged debates\, training presentations\, exploring tools\, and general networking and sharing of job opportuniti es. Our goals are to expand knowledge about Software Quality to all prof essionals who are passionate about their careers\, and take Software Qua lity seriously. \;\n \;\nFor more on SQAUG: \;\nhttp://www.sq aug.org/ \;\nMeetup: SQAUGPDX \;\nLinked in: SQAUG \;\n\n\nTa gs: qa\, user group\, tech\, technology\, quality assurance\, software\n \nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250467798 URL:http://sqaug.org SUMMARY:SQAUG Presents: Using Pre-mortem Meetings to Predict and Prevent Failures LOCATION:Con-Way: 2055 NW Savier St\, Portland OR 97209 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR