What Drives Quality: Project Management
This article describes how Project Management drives quality. Understanding what drives quality enables you to take action before problems actually occur, thus saving time and money.
This article describes how Project Management drives quality. Understanding what drives quality enables you to take action before problems actually occur, thus saving time and money.
Measurements can help you to manage and improve software development. An important issue when implementing measurements is to decide what should be measured?
I started blogging in july 2010, and after less then 16 months I've written 100 blogs (the one you're reading right now is number 100). Did I reach the goals that I've defined when I started blogging? Have I delivered any value, and which benefits did I get from blogging? It's time for a retrospective!
Do you love taking decisions? Most people don't. The more options, the more information, the more effort to evaluate, the more likely that we are dissatisfied with the result. KPIs won't work, empowerment will.
I've worked in a multi-site Process Improvement Team that defined and deployed "Golden Rules”, to understand the agile approach, and to work together in a smooth, efficient and positive way.
The serie on “What Drives Quality” describes both technical activities and supporting activities; this one describes how operational management drives quality. Understanding what drives quality enables you to take action before problems actually occur, thus saving time and money.
There are not that many books who take a look at the software development profession. The book "Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development, by Scott L. Bain" is one of them, it takes a look on how the profession has developed and is still developing.
What is your most important Business Reason to do Root Cause Analysis for software development / maintenance? Please vote at http://linkd.in/nJchM8.
In organization that are migrating to Agile, the question often come up what the role of project managers will be? Are they still needed? Yes they are, but their day to day work will change.
The serie on “What Drives Quality” has thusfar described technical activities that are part of software development. Next postings will cover supporting activities; this one describes how senior management drives quality. Understanding what drives quality enables you to take action before problems actually occur, thus saving time and money.
How do you collaboratively develop software when you have people working at different sites, countries or even continents? How do you get distributed teams to communicate effectively, and deliver working software in a agile way? The second book from Jutta Eckstein can help you to implement agile software development in a multisite environment. Below the book review that I wrote for Software Quality Professional, June 2011, published by the American Society for Quality.
The serie on “What Drives Quality” continues. Previously covering Requirements Quality, Architecture and Design Quality and Coding Quality, this post covers Testing. Understanding what drives quality enables you to take action before problems actually occur, thus saving time and money.