You are invited to Puget Sound PMI's signature networking event, which enables managers to share ideas and form relationships in their community and with hiring companies. Engage in discussions with peers on topics of technical project management, leadership, and strategic and business management while enjoying complimentary hors d'oeuvres. We encourage meeting new people and developing relationships. Managers have benefited from these mixers and some have found employment as a result of relationships started at these events.

Delicious hors d'oeuvres will be served and a cash bar will be available.

This month John Cvetko will be joining us to give an enlightening talk titled: "Test Automation in Agile: A Project Manager View"

John Cvetko: As principal of TFxCloud, a TEK Associates subsidiary, John works with companies and government agencies to improve their project management processes and supports the teams that carry them out. He applies state of the art technologies to evolve processes, and make better use of talent on project teams.

John has over 25 years in high tech; the last 13 have been implementing, monitoring and testing large software systems. His most recent automation testing experience was with CoverOregon as Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V). He also works with the state governments of Washington, Oregon, North Carolina, North Dakota, and Mississippi. In the private sector he has worked with firms such as NIKE, Boeing, Tektronix, and PGE/Enron.

“Test Automation in Agile: A Project Manager View”

Historically there have been numerous challenges with implementing functional software test automation, especially in Agile and iterative environments. These challenges are centered on the complexity and cost of automated software testing, the dynamic nature and release timeframes of Agile, and a variety of other organizational characteristics.

With the advent of Cloud services, previously prohibitive automated testing capabilities are now available on demand and with easy to use interfaces resulting in a faster Time-To-Automate (TTA). This can result in an increase in testing velocity, coverage and the leveraging the experience of business and operations personnel.

This presentation focuses on the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) for software testing programs and how it can be utilized to build an organizational testing roadmap. This roadmap can be utilized to plan testing capabilities and capacity to ensure quality is quantified and is maintained as the organization grows.

Parking: Free parking at Bellevue Collection / Square Garage.

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