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February 24, 2011: "Role of Outsourcing: Finding Your Vision" Meeting Start Time: 6:45pm Presenter: Trevor Atkins, Principal Consultant, Professional Quality Assurance (PQA) Location: Room 239 in Building NE1 - BCIT Burnaby Campus, 3700 Willingdon Ave, Burnaby (Directions) Abstract: Consciously deciding your outsourcing approach is similar to choosing to use risk to drive your testing - Your resulting strategy will be customized to your specific needs and constraints. Often the outsourcing solution is not decided by the team but rather mandated or inherited (including the choice not to have one), much like the expensive software tools that sit on the proverbial shelf - Purchased without a proper needs vs. solutions analysis, or a plan of how to implement and roll-out to gain the full breadth of promised benefits. In this presentation, we will use the software testing function of an organization to craft a multi-faceted sourcing solution model aimed at providing benefits on a combination of fronts including cost efficiency, capacity scalability, optimized communication, domain expertise capture/retention, specialized skills access, centralized strategic planning and accountability, etc. See the full abstract at http://www.vanq.org About Trevor Atkins: Trevor Atkins is Principal Consultant and west-coast Regional Director for PQA Ltd. Prior to that, he was Principal Consultant with Silverpath Technologies and the west-coast Regional Director of Quality Services with UST Global. He was also a founder and the VP Operations of QA Labs Inc., once the largest independent software testing company in Canada. The meeting will start at 6:45pm. However, we advise attendants to arrive between 6:00pm and 6:45pm to enjoy refreshments, and to get acquainted with other participants. Agenda: * Networking before presentation * Feature presentation * Group discussion with the presenter Expected duration: 2 hours.