Software Quality New Zealand President's Report
For 2006 - 2007
As usual the year has gone fast. Changes in IT are certainly not slowing down either and businesses as well as the public sector continue to drive a demand for more connected systems. Combined with a tight job market this puts the ICT industry in quite a predicament. And off course, quality is never allowed to drop.
How do we deal with all this? Well, the least we can do is to work together and share with each other what works and what doesn't. SQNZ provides a forum for doing just that.
As a committee we can look back on a successful year with well attended sessions on Software Testing, Service Oriented Architectures, Use cases and Project Management. For the coming year we should aim to continue to provide sessions on varying topics across the different ICT software development disciplines. If re-elected, I will set out to make our sessions more interactive by attaching a workshop session to each presentation which will allow us to leverage experience of each other more readily. From my experience these sessions can be fun too.
Another major achievement last year was the redevelopment of the website with a clean look and feel and easy access to information. Special thanks to Jim Walmsley for making this happen. We have more changes planned for the website with the establishment of a member's only area, which we hope to commence next year.
I would like to thank all committee members for all their hard work to keep the society running and I look forward to another successful year.
Marien de Wilde
President SQNZ