Consulting and Training Courses

Laurie is a leading industry consultant, trainer and, coach for Fortune 500 companies. As a university professor, she has conducted case studies with industrial organizations to assess the benefits of emerging practices. She is therefore uniquely qualified to enhance her consulting and training with the latest research results in addition to industry practice. Laurie also has experience as an expert witness in legal disputes related to the software industry/software development.

Areas of Expertise:

• Agile and Lean Software Development
• Continuous Deployment
• Software Security
• Software Reliability
• Software Testing
• Software Process

Services:

• Consulting
• Courses customized to your organization in both content and length:
  • Overviews (of "areas of expertise" listed above)
  • Agile Software Development
  • Lean Software Development
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Lean Startup/Lean Enterprise
  • Software Testing
  • Software Reliability Engineering: More Reliable Software, Faster and Cheaper (generally a two-day course; Certified instructor of John Musa's course)
  • Software Security
  • Your made-to-order course in the "areas of expertise" above
• Expert witness
• Life/career coaching

Laurie has received two outstanding teaching awards at North Carolina State University. Her training courses reflect her teaching expertise and her focus on "hands on" workshops to aid in the retention and application of course material. She consistently gets outstanding feedback on her industrial training courses. What course participants have said about her courses.

• "Instructor very knowledgeable and down to earth."
• "Down to earth, not hype."
• "Great instructor."
• "Well organized. Pace is good."
• "Workshops were thoughtful and relevant and practical and illustrative."
• "Group exercises were fun and helped me understand the concepts."