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Scott Duncan

Scott Duncan
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Scott Duncan has 27 years of software development and quality consulting experience in publishing, law and public safety, agricultural R&D, commercial software, finance, and telecom. The last seven of these he has worked with line staff and management, from organizations of 20 to 600 people at a time, to meet quality and improvement goals, including lifecycle-based software quality assurance and measurement/estimation and ISO 9001 (TickIT) registration and CMM Level 3 assessment. Mr. Duncan participates in ISO/IEC standards work; is standards chair for ASQ’s Software Division; has been a speaker, seminar leader, and program committee officer at national and international user groups and conferences; has spoken and/or taught at colleges, universities, and companies in the United States, Canada, and Europe; and has helped organize and serve in various officer roles in local chapters of the ACM, AITP (DPMA), ASQ, and IEEE CS.

Company
Intergraph
Job Function
Scrum Coach/Trainer
Job Title
Executive Subject Matter Expert
Industry
Construction - Architecture - Engineering - Real Estate
Interests
Agile
Design
Leadership
Lean
Open Source
Process Improvement
Programming
Quality Assurance
Requirements
Country
United States
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Scott Duncan

Scott Duncan has 27 years of software development and quality consulting experience in publishing, law and public safety, agricultural R&D, commercial software, finance, and telecom. The last seven of these he has worked with line staff and management, from organizations of 20 to 600 people at a time, to meet quality and improvement goals, including lifecycle-based software quality assurance and measurement/estimation and ISO 9001 (TickIT) registration and CMM Level 3 assessment. Mr. Duncan participates in ISO/IEC standards work; is standards chair for ASQ’s Software Division; has been a speaker, seminar leader, and program committee officer at national and international user groups and conferences; has spoken and/or taught at colleges, universities, and companies in the United States, Canada, and Europe; and has helped organize and serve in various officer roles in local chapters of the ACM, AITP (DPMA), ASQ, and IEEE CS.

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Guerilla SQA

This paper suggests how to introduce software quality assurance (QA) and measurement practices where they might most easily be accepted without taking mainstream development tasks head-on. The paper begins by describing an in-the-small, limited resource ("guerrilla") approach and the context in which it is applied. QA and measurement practices are recommended which support one another and encourage data-centered decision-making. Implementation behaviors to avoid are noted to reduce the resistance faced when introducing such practices flow.