Value the QA Team and Processes!
According to Ken Goldstein for Forbes.com, “There is no argument that we live in a world of staggering speed, where competitors race to meet customer needs and time to market matters. Innovation is...
View ArticleWhat Happens After a Project Fails?
Picture this: You and your team just spent 3 months of long hard work heaping out a great deal of ideas, getting together your latest and leading project…. and it nose-dives. What’s next? Do we call it...
View ArticleWhat it the cost of quality? Do we pay for it?
Do we pay for quality? This article by Rex Black explains how Quality can be free. Most project managers think testing for quality costs too much and takes too long; in reality, it should cost you slim...
View ArticleWhat Goes Into Making Quality a Cultural Value?
Quality is a huge factor in the decision making process for customers today, especially online industries. Even though companies’ margins of error have decreased, the likelihood of errors has...
View ArticleWhat is a major cause of project failure?
A 2009 study conducted by IAG Consulting found that 74% of companies were presenting low levels of requirements to their employees, resulting in project failures. In 2014 a Pulse of the Profession...
View ArticleDoes your organization use ‘cost per defect’ for software quality?
If you do, this is not a good idea. For software, the cost-per-defect-metric has developed into an urban legend, with hundreds of assertions in the literature that early defect detection and removal is...
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Quality Assurance and Quality Control: They Are NOT the Same
Quality assurance and quality control are terms that are often used in IT. It is important to know that quality assurance is the overall mindset and processes which promote quality. Quality control,...
View ArticlePreventing the nightmare scenario: Software quality for IT projects
If there isn’t time to do it correctly from the start, why is there always time to fix the mistakes that could have been prevented from the onset? Avoiding risky shortcuts will prevent nightmares in IT...
View ArticleWhy Aren’t Toyota Production System techniques being used in IT?
The Japanese manufacturing and service sector have been very successful adapting Toyota Production Systems (TPS). In the US we call these “Lean” practices. Still- we don’t really practice them all that...
View ArticleAre your quality metrics telling you the REAL story?
Are your metrics telling you the REAL story? What’s worse, a calculation error that would lead to wrong information being provided to the user or an obvious type in a Help file? How about a user menu...
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