Defect Prevention
(1 Day Workshop)

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Workshop Objectives
After the completion of the course, the participants would be able to:
  • Appreciate the value and need for Defect Prevention initiatives
  • Identify and Estimate potential defects and plan for prevention
  • Equip you with Tools and Techniques for effective Defect Management
  • Devise, plan and maintain an effective Defect Prevention program in your organization
  • Compute and Articulate the ROI from your Defect Prevention initiatives
Workshop Outline
•  
 Introduction
  - Participants
   - Familiarization with course material
   - Familiarization with the protocols and timings
   - Expectation setting and clarifications
    
•   Need for Defect Prevention
  - Why Defect Prevention
   - What have software bugs done
   - The Philosophy of defect prevention
   - Rework – Some Eye openers
   - Business Impact of Rework
   - Cost of Quality
•   Understanding Defects
   - Defect definitions
  - Process and Product Defects
   - Error, Fault, Failure concepts
   - Prevention Vs Detection
•   3D Approach to Defect Prevention
  - Approach of Discipline
   - Approach of Dissection
   - Approach Of Discovery
•   Practices / Tools for Defect Analysis
   - Pareto Technique
  - Cause and effect Technique
   - Control Impact matrix
   - Classification of defects
   - Orthogonal defect classification
   - Defect Taxonomy
   - Defect prevention Flavors
   - Defect Prevention Enablers
   - Defect Prevention cycle
•   CMMI perspective
   - Defect prevention CMMI Perspective
   - CMMI goals and Practices
   Real Time experiences of QAI
•   Approach to Discovery
   - Improvement approaches
   - Orthogonal Defect Classification
   - Personal Level DP
   - Bug Bash
   - Use of Tools
   - FMEA
   - Real time experiences
  - Defect patterns
   - Critical success factors in DP
•   Defect Prediction
   - Empirical Defect prediction techniques
  - Defect Discovery profiles
   - COQUALMO
   - Fault Proneness
   - Capture/recapture analysis
   - Advanced techniques
•   Do’s and Don’ts of a DP program
   - Do’s and Don’ts – Selecting the defects
   - Do’s and Don’ts – Analyzing selected defects
   - Do’s and Don’ts – Deciding actions
   - Do’s and Don’ts – Actions
 
Workshop Methodology
The course is a mix of case driven and instructor-led learning, designed to enable participants learn, experiment and implement the concepts involving application of techniques for defect detection, prevention and prediction.

To enable a thorough hands-on of the concepts taught in the class room, the course is structured around a set of formal case studies.
Audience Profile
The target audience for the program are Software Project Managers, Project Engineers, SEPG /SQA professionals with minimum of two years of experience with regards to various phases of Software Development Life Cycles, and should be involved with any / all / either of the functions given below:
  • Project Management
  • Delivery
  • Testing
  • Quality Process Engineering
  • Software Quality Assurance
 
 

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