TITLE: Raise the Bar on your Project: Deliverable & Code Walkthroughs 

SPEAKER: Richard Burke, PMP, CSQA, Canada Revenue Agency 

DATE: 26th October 2006 

ABSTRACT: 

With industry's renewed emphasis on Quality, Deliverable & Code Walkthroughs 
are a catalyst to achieving effective quality. Everyone knows the stress of 
working overtime, crazy project schedules, or pesky system problems. Taking 
a planned approach to reviewing and "testing" artifacts, deliverables or code 
before it gets into production can be a silver bullet for project success. 


As more heads are better than one, more eyes are better than two; feedback 
is helpful to identify and correct problems before system or code gets into 
production or worse, before these problems make national headlines. 


"Raise the Bar on your Project: Deliverable & Code Walkthroughs" will help 
harness this effective technique. You will learn strategies that have been 
successful with government and private sector projects. This session will 
provide a practical procedure that you can implement in either an individual, 
team or project-wide basis. It will cover identifying reviewers, creating checklists, 
walking through the document or code and follow-up techniques. 


Avoid unplanned overtime and last minute stressors, get your "stuff" right the first 
time with "Raise the Bar on your Project: Deliverable & Code Walkthroughs" 


BIO: 


Richard Burke has worked in the Information Technology Branch of Canada 
Revenue Agency (CRA) from1990 to 1998 and currently from 2002. He is 
currently a/Manager, Quality Program Division (QPD) and coaches projects 
in quality assurance and project management. 


Outside of CRA, he has held assignments as Senior Consultant, Commerce 
One (London, UK), Internet Project Leader at Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, 
Saudi Arabia) and Internet/Intranet Manager at Riyad Bank (Riyadh, 
Saudi Arabia) where he has managed a variety of strategic applications 
including eBanking, internet security, corporate intranet and enterprise help 
desk applications. 


Richard holds a BA from University of Winnipeg and MA credits from Université 
Laval. He is also PMI certified, ie. PMP and is a Certified Software Quality 
Analyst (CSQA). Richard has been published in PMI's PM Network (April 1998) 
and Computing Canada (June 1997) and has made presentations at eBusiness 
2000 (Riyadh), CETEM and GulfNet'99 (Dhahran) as well as various Infonet sessions. 


He is also a Advanced Toastmaster, achieving both his CTM and ATM (Bronze) 
from Toastmaster International.