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             Announcing the March Meeting of the

        BAY AREA QUALITY ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION (BAQAA)

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Speaker:	Mr. Walter J. Utz, Jr., author of 
		Software Technology Transitions

		TOPIC: Software Technology Transitions
		
		o	Technology: Software Lifecycle Tools, 
  			Linkages and more

		o	Technology Transition: The Process,
			the Phases, and the Metrics

		o	Business and Management Practices:
			The Steps to Successfully Manage
			Software Transitions

			and

		Ms. Marianne Bays
		Organizing for I.S. Quality

		o	Integration and Coordination of I.S.
			Application Development Functions with
			the Business Functions

		o	Quality Impact of the I.S. Application
			Development Function

		o	New Model for Measuring I.S. Application
			Development Product and Service Quality

Date:		Thursday, March 26, 1992 

Time:		6:15 PM - Refreshments
		6:30 PM - First Speaker (Ms. Bays)
		7:15 PM - Second Speaker(Mr. Utz)

Location:	Charles Schwab Building, 
		101 Montgomery St.,
		San Francisco, CA

Reservations:	Call Mike Migdoll
		510/ 675-5293

		PLEASE NOTE tha reservations are required
		for non-members for building security reasons.

Cost:		Members: NO CHARGE	Visitors: $11.00

Annual Membership Dues:	Individual	$45.00
			Corporate	$100.00 (any 3 individuals
                                                 from the same
                                                 organization)
			Student		$30.00

For more information on BAQAA please read the following excerpt:

PURPOSE

The BAY AREA QUALITY ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION is established for 
the purpose of providing its members a professional environ-
ment in which to promote abd encourage Total Quality Manage-
ment and Quality Assurance functions in Software and Data
Processing industries.

It is a non-profit organization, for professional development.

GOALS OF BAQAA

The specific objectives of the association are to promote the
education and training of its members in order to expand their
knowledge and skills in the fields of Quality Assurance and 
Testing in the software industry; to provide adequate comm-
unication to the membership on the current events in the QA&T
disciplines that will be beneficial to them; and to communicate
to the software and data processing communities the importance 
of, and the benefits to be derived from, the effective practice
of Quality Assurance and Test.

HISTORY

BAQAA was organized in 1983 to promote the Quality Assurance
function in software development. The intent was to provide a
focal point where software development, quality assurance and 
test, and data processing professionals with a personal interest
in the QA function may interact with others in the field.

The first meeting, held in January 1984, was a tremendous success
where forty invitations to organizations and businesses yielded
fifty-two attendees. Since then, our meetings, held generally 
once a month, have presented a variety of speakers and topics 
ranging from discussions of how member organizations manage their
QA departments to presentations on the uses of peer reviews/walk-
throughs to improve software quality. Since then, BAQAA has 
quadrupled its memebership and is the fastest growing Quality
Assurance organization in the Bay Area. 

MEETINGS

Meetings are generally held on the last Wednesday or Thursday of 
the month. Announcement with details is sent to members approximately
two weeks prior to the scheduled meeting. If you are interested on
getting on the mailing list, please send your name, address, and 
position to:

BAQAA, P.O.Box 93787, San Rafael, CA 94912

or email to: aref@unet.net.com (if you do not receive an acknowledgement
                                please try again)

ACTIVITIES

	o	Serve as a resource for guidance in developing
		existing quality assurance departments.

	o	Maintain and provide a membership directory to
		members

	o	To promote monthly meetings with topics of interest
		to QA professionals

	o	To provide professional networking

	o	To promote an exchange of ideas between professionals
		interested in QA and Test issues.

Listed below are some of the topics discussed in the past, by various
speakers at BAQAA meetings:

	o	Testing for Quality
	o	The Development Center
	o	The Relationship between Testing and QA	
	o	Walkthroughs - The Importance of Peer Reviews
	o	An Overview of Projects		
	o	QA as a Measuring Science
	o	QA Measurments and Evaluations
	o	Inching Toward Metrics: A Look at Measurement Implementation
		at Pacific Bell
	o	Automated Software Metrics Tools: Based on the Principals of
		Productive Software Management
	o	Software Quality Activities at Hewlett-Packard
	o	Using Expert Systems to Improve Quality
	o	QA Methods and Practices in a Software Vendor Environment
	o	IEEE Standard for Software Unit Testing

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Please Write to BAQAA, P.O.Box 9378, San Rafael, CA 94912

Or Call Ms. Alka Shah-Jarvis, 415/ 627-8519