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Past Presentations

I've provided links to the notes for most of the presentations listed here. If you're looking for something and you can't find it, just ask.

August 2010
August 16	A two-hour online coaching presentation for a large corporate client. This was done as a conversation with one of their staff, and seemed very well received.
August 3-4	At CAST (the Conference of the Association for Software Testing) in Grand Rapids, Michigan, I was asked at the last minute to do a presentation as a replacement for a presenter who was unable to attend. I did my presentation on Noticing.
July 2010
July 17-18	The Sixth Toronto Workshop on Software Testing, an invitation-only peer conference which I co-founded with Fiona Charles. This year we were privileged to have attendees from Calgary and England, in addition to our usual complement of people from Ottawa and southwestern Ontario.
July 7-9	A public offering of Rapid Software Testing in Amsterdam, organized by Diaz and Hilterscheid, the publishers of Testing Experience magazine.
June 2010
June 28-30	Co-presented Cem Kaner's Black Box Software Testing class (with Cem himself in the lead role) to a corporate client in Waterloo, Ontario.
June 23-25	Assisted Cem Kaner in a rare live presentation of his Black Box Software Testing class here in Toronto, for TASSQ, the Toronto Association of System and Software Quality. Check out the online courses offered by the Association for Software Testing.
June 22	A EuroSTAR Webinar, "Testers: Get Out of the Quality Assurance Business".
June 17 & 18	A two-day public class in two parts: A Rapid Introduction To Rapid Software Testing and Critical Thinking for Testers, for the Southwestern Ontario Software Quality Group.
June 14-16	An in-house presentation of Rapid Software Testing for a corporate client in Waterloo. Because of a crowded schedule, we'll be doing the free fourth day later.
June 10	For the Calgary Software Quality Discussion Group, the first public presentation of "Testers: Get Out of the Quality Assurance Business".
June 7-9	Rapid Software Testing, in a three-day public offering in Calgary, AB, sponsored by Lynn McKee and by Wayne Stark of Integritas Solutions.
May 2010
May 14	An afternoon with the Scottish Testing Group in Edinburgh. I presented Two Futures of Sofware Testing, Six Short Talks About Software Testing, and a new version of Burning Issues of the Day.
May 12	The London Tester's Gathering in the basement at the LVPO Bar in Soho, London, UK. I talked about (and heartily recommended) Leviathan and the Air Pump, a history of an epic scientific dispute that reflected the tensions between experiment and philosophy.
May 11-13	A three-day public offering of Rapid Software Testing in London, England, May 11-13. This one is sponsored by Stephen Allott at Electromind.
April 26-30	"I Wouldn't Have Seen It If I Hadn't Believed It: Confirmation Bias in Testing", a track session at the STAR East Conference, Orlando, Florida.
April 22-24	The 14th Workshop on Performance and Reliability in Montreal, Quebec.
April 21	Questioning Best Practices—a half-day tutorial at the Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association'S third annual Targeting Quality Conference.
April 13-16	A three-day session of Rapid Software Testing, plus a day of free consulting, for a corporate client in Colorado Springs, CO.
March 2010
March 23-25	A three-day public offering of Rapid Software Testing in Berlin, Germany, sponsored by Testing Experience.
March 23-25	A three-day public offering of Rapid Software Testing, and a keynote talk on Testing, Checking, and Tools at the Conference on Free Testing Tools, sponsored by the Norwegian Computer Society, in Trondheim, Norway.
March 22	A keynote talk on testing vs. checking at the Conference on Free Testing Tools, sponsored by the Norwegian Computer Society, in Trondheim, Norway.
March 11-12	A meeting with a number of testers in Moscow, Russia, where I described, explained, and demonstrated Rapid Software Testing.
February 2010
February 10	I gave an interactive talk, "Why Is Testing Taking So Long" at the Markham meeting for TASSQ, the Toronto Association of System and Software Quality.
January 2010
January 29-31	The 2010 Workshop on Teaching Software Testing, in Melbourne, Florida. This year the subject was what to teach programmers about how to test at the implementation level.
December 2009
December 14-17	A session of Rapid Software Testing with a corporate client in St. Louis, MO.
December 1	Burning Issues of the Day, a mini track session presentation at EuroSTAR 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden.
November 2009
November 30	An Exploratory Testing Masterclass, a one-day tutorial at EuroSTAR 2009.
November 19	Exploring Testing (and) Leadership, the opening plenary presentation at STC 2009, a conference sponsored by the Edista Testing Institute and QAI Worldwide in Bangalore, India.
November 17-18	A two-day Rapid Software Testing class in Bangalore, India.
November 16	A one-day session of Rapid Software Testing in Hyderabad, India.
November 13	A one-day session of Rapid Software Testing in Chennai, India.
November 12	A one-day session of Rapid Software Testing in Mumbai, India.
November 12	A day of corporate consulting with a client in the Washington, DC area.
November 2-5	A session of Rapid Software Testing with a corporate client in Baltimore, MD.
October 2009
October 26-29	TesTrek, a QAI-produced conference right here in Toronto. I participated in the Managers' Workshop on Monday. This included two impromptu talks Test Process in 20 Minutes and Automation in 20 Minutes. I also presented Two Futures of Software Testing on Wednesday.
October 22-23	At the Software Test and Performance Conference, Boston, MA, a keynote address, Lessons Can Learn from Astronauts. In addition, three track talks: Noticing, A Rapid Introduction To Rapid Software Testing, and Two Futures of Software Testing.
October 5-9	Three sessions at STAR West, Anaheim, CA, October 5-9: Tester's Clinic: Dealing with Tough Questions and Testing Myths; Using the Secrets of Improv to Improve Your Testing; and The Skill of Factoring: Identifying What to Test. I also participated in a panel discussion hosted by Ross Collard, with James Bach, James Lyndsay, and Harry Robinson.
September 2009
September 30	A re-presentation of my talk on Noticing skills at the Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association.
September 29	An online Webinar on exploratory approaches in Agile projects, with Chad Wathington from ThoughtWorks. My slides for the Webinar are are here.
August 2009
August 31-September 3	Working with a local client to present Rapid Software Testing and four sessions of follow-up work, in Toronto, starting August 31 and continuing through the fall.
August 27-28	A workshop on "Why is Testing Taking So Long?" at Agile 2009, Thursday, August 27. The really interesting thing at the conference, for me, was the next day: a lightning talk on testing vs. checking. The story is in this blog post, and a series of blog posts on the topic begins here.
August 10-13	An in-house session of Rapid Software Testing and a day of hands-on testing, consulting and coaching with a client in northern Calfornia.
August 10-13	An in-house session of Rapid Software Testing and a day of hands-on testing, consulting and coaching with a client in northern Calfornia.
July 2009
July 13-15	At the CAST Conference in Colorado Springs, CO, a one-day tutorial workshop with Fiona Charles called Testing Your Testing: Determining Risks, and solo, an interactive version of User Acceptance Testing: A Context-Driven Perspective. Some notes are available upon request. I also enjoyed facilitating a couple of sessions.
July 1-3	A public session of Rapid Software Testing, in London, England, UK, July 1-3, 2009, sponsored by ElectroMind.
June 2009
June 22-26	Professional development: participated in Jerry Weinberg's workshop, Designing Experiential Exercises and Simulations, presented with Esther Derby June 22-26 in Albuquerque, NM.
June 16	A presentation of my keynote address, Two Futures of Software Testing at the June 17, 2009 BCS SIGIST Conference in London, England. Later that day, two pseudo-lightning talks (they were longer than five minutes). The first was on the subject of emotions as triggers to recognizing oracles and problems in software. The second was a work-in-progress on how we decide to stop testing, and why "testing" takes so long.
May 2009
May 4-7	At the STAR East conference, produced by Software Quality Engineering in Orlando, FL, I gave a keynote address on Testing and Noticing. I also gave a half-day experiential workshop on Difficult Testing Questions and How to Answer Them, and a track session called Insource or Outsource Testing: Understanding Your Context.
April 2009
April 20-22	The QAI QUEST Conference in Chicago. I gave a full-day workshop called Exploratory Testing: Design, Execute and Learn, and a track session billed as Exploratory Testing: Recording and Reporting. If you're interested in the topic, you may also be interested in a 2007 paper, An Exploratory Tester's Notebook.
March 2009
March 16	A keynote presentation and a track session at the Triangle Information Systems Quality Assurance 2009 Testing Conference is in Chapel Hill, NC.
March 8-12	Rapid Software Testing, a full day of hands-on testing, consulting, coaching, dining, and chat with managers, plus two half-days attending and presenting at the company's Quality Summit.
February 2009
February 23-26	A three-day session of Rapid Software Testing, plus a day of consulting, coaching, and hands-on testing with a corporate client in Madison, WI.
January 2009
January 30 - February 1	The annual Workshop on Teaching Software Testing, a peer conference in Melbourne, FL.
December 2008
December 8-12	Rapid Software Testing—two sets of classes over five days, for testers, test leads, and managers—at a corporate client in Richmond, BC.
November 2008
November 24-27	Rapid Software Testing—three days, plus a day of consulting and coaching for a corporate client in Kanata, ON.
November 17	Six Short Talks About Software Testing, for VX Company.
November 10-13	EuroSTAR 2008 in Den Haag, the Netherlands, at which I presented three sessions. The first, on November 11, was an experiential tutorial on Critical Thinking for Testers. The second, on November 12, was a double-track experiential session on Heuristics: Solving Problems Quickly. The third on November 13, was a track session, a new version of my talk Two Futures of Software Testing. For this I was honoured to accept the very first CapGemini European Award for Innovation in Testing. According the organizers was also the highest-rated track session at the conference, as voted on by the attendees.
November 6	The day-after-AYE experiential workshop on teaching experiential workshops, presented by Jerry Weinberg and assisted by Esther Derby.
November 3-5	The annual AYE Conference (the ninth, and my sixth), at which I was delighted to assist Jerry Weinberg with several of his experiential workshops. This conference coincided with the debut of The Gift of Time, edited by my colleague Fiona Charles and the first published book to which I've contributed a chapter.
October 2008
October 24	A morning presentation for corporate client and their clients on the value of exploratory approaches to testing. The day continued with a lunchtime presentation to the client's testers and programmers, and an afternoon of discussion with a couple of key test managers. Dinner included conversation with the client's staff and a manager from the morning session, and continued into the night (the Swedes have remarkable endurance) with discussion of how to establish a community of skilled testers. And then we went to the pub.
October 21-23	A three-day public course of Rapid Software Testing in Umeå, Sweden.
October 10	A presentation to a corporate client near Minneapolis, MN, followed by a couple of hours of conversation on test priorities and strategies in a highly regulated, high-risk context.
October 7-9	A three-day session of Rapid Software Testing in Minneapolis, MN, sponsored by the Twin Cities Quality Assurance Association, plus an address (Six Short Talks About Software Testing) on the last day to the TCQAA's monthly membership meeting. For a few members of the board, I also provided an evening's worth of consulting on presenting successful workshops as fundraisers for testing organization.
September 2008
September 29 - October 2	STAR West 2008, at which I presented a tutorial (Difficult Testing Question and How To Answer Them) and a track session, a requested repeat of last spring's session on test coverage. I also had the pleasure of some development work on the Rapid Software Testing course with James Bach, and the fun of playing testing games over several nights in the Lost Bar at the Disneyland Hotel.
September 23-26	A consulting assignment in which I was asked to observe, analyze, and report on my client's testing and development processes. This was a fairly inspiring occasion; one of the first times that I've even seen a development organization make excellent use of metrics. They used metrics for inquiry, not for control; that is, every measurement was assumed to prompt questions rather than to give answers.
September 22	A one-day workshop entitled "Exploratory Testing: Design, Execute, Learn" at the QUEST 2008 conference, Toronto, Ontario.
September 17-20	Four days of onsite consulting for a corporate client in Provo, Utah. This was a refreshing opportunity to present some of the material from the Rapid Software Testing course, but also to have more free-ranging discussions about testing with the company's testers and test managers.
September 16	Six Short Talks About Software Testing, a special presentation for a corporate client in Toronto, Ontario.
September 8-10	Rapid Software Testing three-day course, plus a day of consulting and coaching for a corporate client in Toronto, Ontario. This is the second time this client has had me teach. Clients often use our exercises for interviews and training after the course, so a lot of the participants this time had been exposed to some of our regular exercises, so this was a great opportunity to debut and develop new exercises, or to put a new spin on old ones.
August 2008
August 12-15	When Two Plus Two is Wrong (a half-day workshop) and Numbers vs. Narratives (a keynote address) at the Software Testing Australia New Zealand (STANZ) conference in Wellington, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia. I also gave a full-day tutorial, Critical Thinking for Testers, in Wellington.
August 5-8	I presented two sessions at Agile 2008 in Toronto. The first was How Am I Supposed To Act, a half-day workshop on improvisational theatre and performance and how they relate to software development; and Why So Little Questioning, in which I led participants in an exercise on creating Laws of Media tetrads as exposited by Marshall and Eric McLuhan and Mark Federman.
July 2008
July 14-16	I acted as Conference Chair for the Conference for the Association for Software Testing (CAST) 2008. Keynotes included Jerry Weinberg, Cem Kaner, Rob and Anne Sabourin, and Brian Fisher. I also presented Testing and Music: Parallels in Practice, Skills and Learning, which I co-authored with Jonathan Kohl, and assisted Jerry Weinberg at the Tester's Communication Clinic.
July 12-13	The fourth Toronto Workshop on Software Testing, which I co-organized with Fiona Charles (Fiona did most of the heavy lifting this year). This year's topic was Deception and Self-Deception in Software Testing.
June 2008
June 2325	Rapid Software Testing in a three-day private session for a corporate client in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Nice to be at home for a change!
June 16-18	Rapid Software Testing, a three-day public course sponsored by Sogeti Spain, in Barcelona, Spain.
May 2008
May 27	Six Short Talks about Software Testing, for the Toronto Association of System and Software Quality.
May 19-21	A three-day public session of Rapid Software Testing, sponsored by ENEA in Stockholm, Sweden.
May 18	While in transit to Sweden, I had the good luck to be able to attend LEWT, the London Exploratory Workshop on Testing, a peer conference organized by James Lyndsay (and many thanks to him).
May 7 - 8	Two talks at STAR East: Angels and Devils of Software Testing (with Jonathan Kohl) and Understanding Test Coverage.
April 2008
April 23	I appeared at the inaugural Conference for the Kitchener Waterloo Software Quality Association, where I presented Why I Am Not (Yet) Certified, followed by a half-day Testing Clinic.
April 15-17	The Software Test and Performance Conference (STPCon) in San Mateo, CA. I presented a one-day Rapid Software Testing workshop, and then three track sessions: The Metrics Minefield; User Acceptance Testing; and Exploratory Testing: The State of the Art.
March 2008
March 31-April 3	A three-day Rapid Software Testing workshop for a corporate client in Ronneby, Sweden, followed by a day of hands-on testing work and two presentations; one to managers and the other to developers.
March 18-20	A three-day Rapid Software Testing workshop for a corporate client in Ottawa, Ontario.
February 2008
February 25-29	A three-day Rapid Software Testing workshop, followed by a day of work with small groups of testers, for a corporate client in Istanbul, Turkey.
February 13-15	Rapid Software Testing for a couple of corporate clients in Lund, Sweden.
February 12	In the morning, a presentation on exploratory testing and on heuristics for a group of testers, developers, and managers at a corporate client in Lund, Sweden. In the afternoon, a workshop on exploratory testing, featuring mostly a set of exercises, for some of the testers from the morning group.
February 11	A one-day presentation of Rapid Software Testing for the Norwegian Computer Society in Oslo, Norway.
January 2008
January 18-20	Participated in the Workshop on Teaching Software Testing. Presented a couple of exercises from the Rapid Software Testing course. These exercises engage testers' emotions, curiosity, and inventiveness, which seemed of particular interest to the many of the academics.
January 7-9	Rapid Software Testing—a three-day course, sponsored by the Toronto Association of System and Software Testing.
December 2007
December 19	One day of consulting as follow-up to the Rapid Software Testing course for a corporate client in Mississauga, ON.
December 11-14	Rapid Software Testing—a three-day course, followed by a day of consulting, at a corporate client in Omaha, NE.
December 6	"An Exploratory Tester's Notebook", a track session at EuroSTAR 2007.
December 4	"Why I Am Not (Yet) Certified", a keynote presentation at EuroSTAR 2007.
December 3	A Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing—a one-day workshop at EuroSTAR 2007, Stockholm, Sweden.
November 2007
November 28-30	A Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing—a one-day workshop at expo:QA 2007, Madrid, Spain, followed by a track session, "When Two Plus Two Doesn't Equal Four".
November 20-22	Rapid Software Testing at a corporate client in Mississauga, Ontario.
November 7-8	Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference, Grand Rapids, MI. I gave a half-day Rapid Software Testing tutorial, a lightning talk on Emotions and Oracles, and appeared on a panel discussion software testing certification schemes (I'm not in favour of the current ones).
October 2007
October 31	Gave a presentation called "Boundaries Abound, Boundlessly"—a talk on boundary testing, co-authored with James Bach—for the Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association (KWSQA), Waterloo, ON.
October 30	Live host for a remote presentation by David Platt on Why Software Sucks.
October 29	Gave an Ignite Presentation (a lightning talk) on Emotions and Test Oracles at DemoCamp 15, Toronto, ON.
October 25	Presented "Emotions and Test Oracles", a track presentation at the STAR West conference, Anaheim, CA.
October 22-24	Three-day Rapid Software Testing course for a corporate client in Tempe, AZ.
October 15-18	Presented a three-day Rapid Software Testing course, with an extra day of followup consulting with the test leads, for a corporate client in Waterloo, ON.
October 11	A one-day Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing for a modestly-sized corporate client in Redmond, WA.
October 9-10	Presented three papers for the 25th annual Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference in Portland, OR: Two Futures of Software Testing and User Acceptance Testing in Context (two older talks promoted to papers) and An Exploratory Tester's Notebook (a new talk and paper).
October 2-4	At the Software Test and Performance Conference in Boston, MA, I presented a one-day Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing, and three talks—When Two Plus Two Doesn't Equal Four; The Metrics Minefield, and User Acceptance Testing in Context. In addition, James Bach and I practiced rapid software testing on a pair of Web kiosks in the hotel. We found many bugs, including a couple of reasonably serious security holes—and in an effort to be good guys, we informed the provider of those kiosks. Also played mandolin at two Irish sessions in town!
September 2007
September 10-13	Presented a three-day Rapid Software Testing course, and provided a day of coaching and consulting to a corporate client, Halifax, NS.
August 2007
August 28-30	Presented Rapid Software Testing to a corporate client, Cupertino, CA.
July 2007
July 17-19	Presented Rapid Software Testing to a corporate client, Caribou, ME.
July 9-11	Attended the Conference of the Association for Software Testing, Bellevue, WA.
July 7-8	Participant in the Workshop on Heuristic and Exploratory Techniques, Seattle, WA.
July 4-5	Consulting and coaching in rapid and exploratory testing, corporate client, Waterloo, ON.
June 2007
June 24-29	Participated in Jerry Weinberg's Problem Solving Leadership workshop (co-hosted by Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby), Albuquerque, NM.
June 22	Presented four one-hour talks (Two Plus Two: Recognizing Oracles and Setting Context; First to Market or First to Fail; The Metrics Minefield; and Numbers vs. Narratives) at Bank of Montreal's Professional Excellence Symposium, Toronto, ON.
June 18-20	Presented "First to Market or First to Fail", a presentation on innovation, at the Better Software Conference and Expo, Las Vegas, NV.
June 14-15	On-site consulting with a corporate client, Montréal, QC.
June 9-10	Content owner with Fiona Charles for the third Toronto Workshop on Software Testing (TWST III), this time on the subject of risk-based testing, Toronto, ON.
June 4-6	Presented Rapid Software Testing to a corporate client in Rome, GA.
May 2007
May 17-18	Presented two Lightning Talks—one on Rapid Test Estimation, and the other on the role of emotion in software testing—at the STAR East conference in Orlando, Florida. Colloborated with James Bach in the early-morning test tutorials—not an official conference offering!
May 14-16	Presented Rapid Software Testing to a corporate client in Fort Pierce, Florida.
April 2007
April 30-May 3	Work onsite with a corporate client in Eden Prairie, MN, presenting Rapid Software Testing, and a day of hands-on and one-on-few consulting before and after the course.
April 17-19	A one-day tutorial on Rapid Software Testing, plus User Acceptance Testing, When Two Plus Two Equals Four is Wrong, and The Metrics Minefield at Software Test and Performance Conference 2007, San Mateo, California, USA.
April 10-13	Onsite consulting with a corporate client, teaching Rapid Software Testing and testing exercises, at home in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
April 4-5	The Metrics Minefield, a talk about the dangers of numbers without stories, at Statistics Canada's IT Conference 2007, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
March 2007
March 20-21	A half-day tutorial on Rapid Software Testing; a class on Testing Skills That (Almost) No One Talks About; and another class on An Exploratory Tester's Notebook at the SD West Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, California.
February 2007
February 26-28	Rapid Software Testing three-day course with corporate client in Cupertino, California.
January 2007
January 31-February 2	Rapid Software Testing three-day course with corporate client in Bengalooru, India.
January 31	Presentation on building a software testing community, with a followup presentation on Learning About Oracles, hosted by NDS Software in Koramangala, Bengalooru, India.
January 23-23	Consulting work with corporate client in Waterloo, Ontario, on Rapid and exploratory testing.
January 19	Exploratory Testing - The State of the Art—a plenary address for the STeP-IN Forum 2007, Bengalooru, India.
January 18	A Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing—a half-day tutorial for the STeP-IN Forum 2007, Bengalooru, India.
January 16	Rapid Software Testing Explained—a three-hour presentation, with questions and answers, for a group of senior testers at a major services firm in Bengalooru, India.
January 9-11	Rapid Software Testing three-day course for TASSQ, the Toronto Association of System and Software Quality.
December 2006
December 12-14	Rapid Software Testing three-day course for a corporate client in Waterloo, ON.
December 8-9	A presentation of "Testing Skills That (Almost) Nobody Talks About" and "Testers as Their Own Worst Enemies", plus a half-day tutorial on Rapid Software Testing at Testing World 2006, a presentation of Thatavarti Technologies and other sponsors in Hyderabad, India.
November 2006
November 30	A presentation of "Two Futures of Software Testing" for expo:QA in Madrid, Spain.
November 27-29	A three-day tutorial on Rapid Software Testing for inQA:labs in Madrid, Spain.
November 13-17	A tutorial on Rapid Software Testing and participation at the 27th Annual QAI Testing Conference, in Orlando, Florida. The conference featured terrific keynotes by Cem Kaner and Jonathan Bach.
November 6-9	Three conference sessions at the annual AYE Conference: a workshop called "Testing: Setting Context and Identifying Oracles"; a presentation on "Geeks and Adders", a board game co-developed by me Fiona Charles, Mary Alton, and Jill Shefrin that models software development projects; and "How Am I Supposed to Act", a beginners' workshop on improv acting.
October 2006
October 30-November 1	Rapid Software Testing for a corporate client, Montréal, Québec.
October 16-18	Rapid Software Testing for the Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association.
October 9-11	Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, Portland, Oregon: Rapid Software Testing One-Day Introduction and an invited talk, First to Market or First to Fail: A General Systems Perspective.
October 2-5	QAI International Software Quality Conference, Toronto: Rapid Software Testing One-Day Introduction and a keynote address, Testing Skills That (Almost) Nobody Talks About.
September 2006
September 27	The Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association, Kitchener, ON: The Metrics Minefield
September 26	The Toronto Association of System and Software Quality, Toronto: The Metrics Minefield
September 24-29	Rapid Software Testing and consulting at a local client here in Toronto.
September 11-14	SD Best Practices, Boston, Massachusetts: Testing Skills That (Almost) Nobody Talks About; Exploring Exploratory Testing; A Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing; When Two Plus Two Equals Four is Wrong: What Is The Problem And How Do We Know?
September 2-8	Consultants' Camp, Mt. Crested Butte, Colorado
August 2006
August 12-19	Teaching Rapid Software Testing to a corporate client, Recife, Brazil
July 2006
July 23-28	Two presentations on Rapid Software Testing and Exploratory Testing at the Agile2006 International Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota
June 2006
June 28-30	Rapid Software Testing, Public Course offered through inQA.labs, Barcelona, Spain
June 24-25	The Toronto Workshop on Software Testing II (Peer Conference), Toronto, Ontario
June 21-23	Rapid Software Testing, Public Course, Toronto, Ontario
June 16	Four one-hour presentations for an in-house conference, BMO Financial Group, Toronto, Ontario
May 2006
May 29-31	Rapid Software Testing, Corporate Client, Singapore
May 19-21	Workshop on Heuristic and Exploratory Testing (Peer Conference), Palm Bay, Florida
May 18	"User Acceptance Testing: What It Is, And How To Do It Better—In Context", STAR East, Orlando, Florida Finally, a presentation that recognizes how important it is that everything must be put into context before its value can be understood or judged. Best presentation so far, by far! Loved the humor—very entertaining and good info. Explained ways to look at UAT. I'll be able to use the info to open discussions at work. Thanks! Reminded me again about all the questions I should ask about everyday tasks. Best speaker I've heard here this STAR—more please!
May 9 - 11	Rapid Software Testing, Corporate Client, Toronto, Ontario
May 3 - 5	Rapid Software Testing, Corporate Client, Altoona, Pennsylvania
April 2006
April 27	A (Rapid) Introduction to Rapid Software Testing, QAI Conference, Orlando, Florida
April 25	Exploratory Testing, half-day tutorial, QAI Conference, Orlando, Florida
April 3-5	Rapid Software Testing, South Western Ontario Software Quality Group, Kitchener, Ontario
March 2006
March 27-31	Participant in Jerry Weinberg's Consultants' Workshop, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
March 21-23	Rapid Software Testing Course, Corporate Client, Stuttgart, Germany
March 18	Chaired presentations for plenary sessions, and invited panel member for "Testing: How Do We Stop the Madness?", at STC2006, QAI India, Delhi, India
March 17	Presentations of "Two Futures of Software Testing" and "Testing Skills That (Almost) Nobody Talks About, at STC2006, QAI India, Delhi, India
March 16	One-Day Tutorial on Rapid Software Testing, for QAI India, Bangalore, India
March 14	One-Day Tutorial on Rapid Software Testing, for QAI India, Mumbai, India
March 13	One-Day Tutorial on Rapid Software Testing, for QAI India, Delhi, India
February 2006
February 23	Experience Report on the Exploratory Testing Research Summit to the Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association, Waterloo, Ontario
February 16	Introduction to Rapid Software Testing + consulting, Corporate Client, Mississauga, Ontario
February 3 - 5	Workshop on Teaching Software Testing, hosted by Cem Kaner and James Bach, in Melbourne, Florida
January 2006
January 31 - February 1	Exploratory Testing Research Summit, hosted by Cem Kaner and James Bach, in Palm Bay, Florida
January 4 - 6	Rapid Software Testing Course, Board Members of the Toronto Association of System and Software Quality
December 2005
Entire Month	Private consulting and testing work with a Canadian financial services company
November 2005
Entire Month	Private consulting and testing work with a Canadian financial services company
November 29	Rapid Software Testing One-Day Workshop, with James Bach, Toronto, Ontario
November 28	Rapid Software Testing One-Day Workshop, with James Bach, Kitchener, Ontario
November 7 - 10	AYE Conference; assisting Jerry Weinberg with "Using Your Yes/No Medallion" workshop, Phoenix, Arizona
October 2005
Entire Month	Private consulting and testing work with a Canadian financial services company
October 17	A Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing; presentation to the Canadian Information Processing Society, Toronto, Ontario
October 5 - 7	QAI International Software Quality Conference; including presentation of Rapid Software Testing overview
September 2005
Entire Month	Private consulting and testing work with a Canadian financial services company
September 27	Software Development Best Practices conference; one-hour presentation of A Rapid Introduction to Rapid Software Testing, Boston, MA
September 27	Software Development Best Practices conference; one-hour presentation on User Acceptance Testing, Massachussets, USA
September 26	Software Development Best Practices conference; half-day tutorial on Exploratory Testing, Boston, Massachussets, USA
September 7-9	Rapid Software Testing Three-Day workshop; corporate training in Sophia-Antipolis, France
August 2005
Entire Month	Private consulting and testing work with a Canadian financial services company
August 22-August 26	Presentations of Introduction to Rapid Software Testing for the Software Testing Australia / New Zealand (STANZ) Conference, Wellington New Zealand and Canberra, Australia
July 2005
Entire Month	Private consulting and testing work with a Canadian financial services company
July 18-20	Rapid Software Testing Three-Day workshop; corporate training in South Utica, Michigan, USA
June 2005
Entire Month	Private consulting and testing work with a Canadian financial services company
June 18-19	The Toronto Workshop on Software Testing, Toronto, Ontario
May 2005
Entire Month	Private consulting and testing work with a Canadian financial services company
May 11	Presentation to South Western Ontario Software Quality Group, London, Ontario
May 3-5	Rapid Software Testing Three-Day workshop; corporate training in Chennai, India
April 2005
Entire Month	Private consulting and testing work with a Canadian financial services company
April 20-21	Workshop on Exploratory Testing for the Jornada sobre el Testeo de Software (JTS2005) in Valencia, Spain
April 5-7	Rapid Software Testing Three-Day workshop; corporate training in Mount Laurel, NJ, USA
March 2005
Entire Month	Private consulting and testing work with a Canadian financial services company
March 22	Presentation of "Two Futures of Software Testing" for XPwm, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
March 16-18	Rapid Software Testing Three-Day workshop; corporate training in Sunnyvale, California, USA

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