Laura Rose

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Articles and other materials by Laura Rose

Laura Rose is a personal life coach, quality assurance expert, client advocate and project manager. In addition to leading projects in both software programming and testing environments, she has thirteen years of programming experience and ten in test management. Laura authors many articles and workshops on time management and strategic scheduling. She is also the founder of the electronic magazine the Rose Garden: the Art of Becoming. Also, check out http://thelaurarose.blogspot.com/

Blog with Laura at http://thelaurarose.blogspot.com/ Free email coaching sessions available at LauraRose@RoseCoaching.info Free introduction one-on-one coaching sessions available at www.RoseCoaching.info Red Light, Green Light Abstract: With a little forethought, everyone has the ability to attract green lights where ever they go. Type: Article can be found at http://www.rosecoaching.info/Articles/Red Light Green Light.htm Everyone can get what they want….. Abstract: My brother and I invested in a 2^nd house for rental property. Times are really tough and I need full-rent on that property to pay my bills. My brother wants to continue to offer the house at ½ rent to his son (my nephew). How can you both be happy? Type: Article can be found at http://www.rosecoaching.info/Articles/Client Excerpt.htm The Business of Busyness What: 12 Tips to Realistic Scheduling Abstract: Whether you're managing a software development project or coordinating your children's soccer and dance lesson times, schedules are helpful tools for orchestrating a sequence of events. Most schedules involve a start and end date, and include tasks, task duration, and dependencies between tasks. But no matter how well you plan for a series of events, unexpected events will compete for time and threaten deadlines. People you hadn't anticipated will step into your plans and begin to influence, control, and often complicate things. When we do not handle unexpected events and the interpersonal elements well, our schedules fall apart. Type: Article can be found at http://www.rosecoaching.info/Articles/Twelve tips for realistic scheduling in a software development project.htm A Leader Among Followers What: Creating Dynamic Followers as Prerequisites for Leading Abstract: We hear that for an effective organization to smoothly evolve and develop there should only be one Indian chief and many Indians; one leader and many followers. And we continuously applaud, train and promote leadership positions. The reality is that the majority of most organizations are followers. Since an effective follower is critical to an organization and its ability to accomplish a mission, should there be some discussion in what makes an effective follower? Type: Article can be found at http://www.rosecoaching.info/Articles/a-leader-amongst-followers.pdf Creating Inappropriate Heroes. Abstract: We’ve all caught ourselves thinking and feeling things like: “If I want it done right, I need to do it myself.” “There’s no one else to do it”. “It always falls on me.” “Why am I always the one that has to move/change/compromise/keep the peace, etc. If we like feeling this way, then there’s no issue. We are creating the perfect scenarios for ourselves. If you want something different, then below are some quick tips to avoid creating that trap for ourselves. Type: Article can be found at http://www.rosecoaching.info/Articles/inappropriate-heros.pdf Meet My Friend Mr. Fear What: Tips on facing your fears Type: Article: Can be found at http://www.rosecoaching.info/Mr.Fear.htm CMM for the Squeamish: Intro for Test Organization What: Tips on how to use software design tools to improve your CMM level Type: Presentation. Contact Laura Rose to setup a web-conference for your teams. Type: Article: Can be found at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/may05/rose/ Continuously Ensuring Quality What: A case study that follows the tools and techniques used on a real product release Type: Presentation. Contact Laura Rose to setup a web-conference for your teams. Type: Article: Can be found at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/dec04/rose/index.html Do IT: Introduction into Iterative Testing What: How to incorporate testing in the Agile and Iterative development environments) Type: Presentation. Contact Laura Rose to setup a web-conference for your teams. Getting the most from an Automated Test tool. What: Techniques to increase the return on investment of your automated tools.. Type: Article: Can be found at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/1736.html Introduction to Testing as a Career What: Overview of testing, career paths and future challenges. Type: Presentation. Contact Laura Rose to setup a web-conference for your teams. Involving Customers Early What: Techniques to get customers involved in any type of software development lifecycle mode. Type: Presentation. Contact Laura Rose to setup a web-conference for your teams. Type: Article: Can be found at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/jan06/rose/index.html Iterative testing: Myths and realities What: Myths arise from a lack of direct experience. In the absence of information we form beliefs based on what we think we know, often with a skeptical feeling towards what we don’t know. In the realm of software development, myths can make it difficult to approach real-world problems objectively, thus putting budgets and schedules at increased risk. I’ll explain how iterative development principles can address these common misunderstandings and lead us to a pragmatic testing methodology that mitigates or avoids altogether many common software development pitfalls, some of which our “mythology” holds as inevitable. Type: Presentation. Contact Laura Rose to setup a web-conference for your teams. Type: Article: Can be found in http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/apr06/rose/index.html List of Ambiguous Words to Test Requirement Documents What: Tool that helps you search for vague and ambiguous phrases in requirements and design documents. Provides a tangible review technique to expose defects in the early stages of requirement and design reviews. Type: Article: Can be found in the Appendix of http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/dec04/rose/index.html Losing the wait: A "wait loss" program for software development lifecycles This article describes a variety of ways that software development organizations can work more efficiently. Personal fitness and weight loss principles are used as a metaphor to illustrate these concepts throughout. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/aug06/rose/index.html Roadtrip! A Vacation with Iterative Development This paper uses a typical activity such as taking a family vacation, to illustrate how we already use iterative development techniques in our everyday activities. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/July06/rose/ Software Testing in SOA What: One of the hottest IT topics is SOA – Service Oriented Architecture. SOA doesn’t only change the way IT build systems, but it changes the way we, as testers and developers operate and go about our tasks. This presentation covers the differences in testing SOA versus traditional software. Type: Presentation. Contact Laura Rose to setup a web-conference for your teams. Road to Riches: A Case Study of Manual to Automated Testing What: It’s understood that Test Automation is a must for increased test efficiencies. What is often misunderstood is how, when and where to automate. This presentation uses a Real Case Study to illustrate the how, when and where. It also illustrates a different cost perspective on automation’s Return in Investment, which leads us to a more pragmatic automation strategy.. Type: Presentation. Contact Laura Rose to setup a web-conference for your teams. Tips to Realistic Scheduling What: Techniques that go beyond notes, checklists and appointment books Type: Presentation. Contact Laura Rose to setup a web-conference for your teams. Type: Article: Can be found at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/jul05/rose/index.html Using Multi-Tier Scheduling techniques. What: Scheduling techniques that cover parallel projects with shared resources. Second part of the Realistic Scheduling series Type: Presentation. Contact Laura Rose to setup a web-conference for your teams. Type: Article: Can be found at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/sep05/rose/ Warrior Tester What: Sun Tsu was a practical philosopher who wrote the The Art of War in about 500 B.C. In my presentation, I translate the basic fundamentals to define our best and high-performing testers. Type: Article Can be found at: http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/rationaledge/apr08/TheRationalEdge_April2008.pdf Type: Presentation. Contact Laura Rose to setup a web-conference for your teams. .

About the author

Laura has been in the software and testing industry for over 20 years. She’s worked with such companies as IBM, Eriksson, Staples, Fidelity Investments and Sogeti in various client advocacy and project management roles. The techniques she uses in her business coaching and client advocacy work saved these companies both time and money, which resulted in on-time, quality product delivery with higher client satisfaction.

Laura now uses her client focus, project, quality and people management skills in her personal life coaching career. As a personal life coach, she helps people integrate their goals and dreams into their everyday lives. Laura uses creative and practical tools to help her clients realize what really matters to them. They then follow-through with project and time management techniques to create the reality they really want.

Laura offers one-on-one career and life coaching, small group coaching, seminars and workshops. You can learn more about her at www.RoseCoaching.info and contact her at LauraRose@RoseCoaching.info