17th February 2011 – Testing Agile Projects – Dr Stuart Reid, CTO, Testing Solutions Group Our February talk was held in the impressive setting of Sophos’s UK Headquarters based in Abingdon. Sophos laid on a superb spread of sandwiches, delicious cakes and biscuits, tea and coffee to begin the evening in the Atrium of their… Read more »
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Late afternoon visit to Prodrive!
Thursday 28th April 2011, 4 for 4:30pm start Prodrive, Acorn Way, Wildmere Industrial Estate, Banbury OX16 3ER SOLD OUT Prodrive is one of the world’s largest and most successful motorsport and vehicle technology businesses with annual sales of £100 million and employing more than 500 staff in the UK, India, Australia and China. In… Read more »
Testing Agile Projects
Dr Stuart Reid FBCS CITP, TSG Thursday 17th February 2011 – 7:00pm Venue: Sophos plc, Abingdon OX14 3YP Agile is quickly becoming the most popular approach to software development, but it is implemented in a wide variety of ways and many ‘agile’ projects forget to include testers in the agile team. This talk… Read more »
Cryptography: From Black Art to Popular Science – Part 2
Professor Fred Piper, University of London Oxford e-Research Centre, 6 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG Cryptography and Encryption, or the process of hiding secrets as unintelligible codes, has been around for thousands of years. In modern times it has become increasingly familiar, possibly due to the Enigma machine and other coding devices used in the… Read more »
Northampton Branch: IT Skills for the Recovery
Speakers from Large Business, Local Business, Recruitment / HR Agency, University, IT Training provider Skills needed during a recession can differ from those when it’s ‘Business as usual’. Appreciating this difference is essential to surviving in the current climate. We have a new Government which is looking hard at budget cuts and this means redundancies… Read more »