I'm Brendan Hyland. I help regulated facilities transform their software, spreadsheets, workflows and documents from time-consuming, deviation-invoking, regulatory burdens, to the competitive advantage they were meant to be. Join me every week as we take a few minutes to explore, design, test and improve the critical systems we use in our facilities.
Exciting Speaking Opportunity: "The Power of a Specification" at CCSQA/NERCSQA Joint Annual Meeting Fall 2025
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I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be presenting at the CCSQA/NERCSQA Joint Annual Meeting in October! The conference is 2 days, Thursday & Friday, 16-17 October 2025, in Laval, Quebec, Canada. On-site and virtual attendance available. Here's the announcement link: https://sqa.org/CCSQA/CCSQA/Events/Upcoming_Events.aspx My session is on Friday morning, and titled "The power of a specification: Freeing your creative self to go beyond compliance." Here's the abstract: As busy quality professionals it's sometimes easy to get trapped into checkbox compliance, spending creative energy on routine verification rather than innovative problem-solving. This session shows how good specifications can actually free up your creativity by clearly separating what you must do from what you can do. These specifications work like guardrails - they keep you safe while giving you room to innovate. They set clear minimum standards, let you automate testing, and free up your time for more important quality work. I'll demonstrate a practical framework combining static analysis with a creative agent to iteratively improve designs while maintaining compliance. You'll see a working example of how writing testable requirements can make procedures better, faster, especially with the new tools AI makes available to us every day. Instead of limiting your options, specifications become the foundation that enables both ongoing compliance and innovation. I hope to see some of you there! – Brendan p.s. Enjoy this message? Read more at the Hyland Quality Systems website. |
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I'm Brendan Hyland. I help regulated facilities transform their software, spreadsheets, workflows and documents from time-consuming, deviation-invoking, regulatory burdens, to the competitive advantage they were meant to be. Join me every week as we take a few minutes to explore, design, test and improve the critical systems we use in our facilities.
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