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QESP is a specialist group of practitioners wishing to share their experiences and learn from others in the area of Software Quality, Software Process and Software Metrics. Amongst our members we have some of the best known experts in this field. It is a national organisation and may have international members.
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Recent Articles
What School Kids Need: New Findings
By Ted Smillie - Thursday, August 30th, 2018
Previous QESP Newsletter articles have looked at how Education can adapt to meet 21st century skills needs, using 21st Century tools and online resources. Now we are seeing more approaches to helping school kids get into the workforce. “Some students don’t have any meaningful contact with the workplace until their 20s. That’s too late” This […]
Lessons for Australia in the EU’s algorithmic price war that ripped off consumers
By Rob Nicholls, Senior lecturer in Business Law, UNSW - Thursday, August 30th, 2018
The European Commission imposed fines of more than €110 million (AU$170 million) on Asus, Denon & Marantz, Philips and Pioneer this month. These consumer electronics manufacturers had prevented online retailers from selling below the recommended retail price of their products, threatening to block supply if they did so.
Collaborate, but only intermittently, says new study
By Harvard Business School - Monday, August 13th, 2018
Technologies and organizations should be redesigned to intermittently isolate people from each other’s work for best collective performance in solving complex problems.
InnovationXchange: ‘difficult to assess’ Julie Bishop’s pet project
By David Donaldson - Monday, August 6th, 2018
Projects that vanish, ministerial over-involvement and a lack of evaluation: a new report finds some major problems with the secretive aid initiative at DFAT.
Three years after its launch, a lack of transparency makes it difficult to evaluate how well InnovationXchange is faring — and even whether some funded projects are continuing at all.
