Losing Money to
value vampires?
value vampires?
Putting out daily fires with dry hose?
Feeling the pain of systems that never seem to work?
Feeling the pain of systems that never seem to work?
To go on further with the output discussion, we need to make sure we have an understanding of indicators. Indicators inform us what is going on. My stomach growling is a pretty good indicator that I am hungry, and sweating … Continue reading
Our organization’s structure can confound what constitutes and output. Consider the company that is structured as a “functional” organization, the output from one group will typically go to another group in the system. This organization structure is sometimes referred to as “silo” … Continue reading
When we write about input, we are discussing the nature of the exchange to the depending group. The Systems Engineers, in our previous example, need some input from the Marketing staff to be able to design something to achieve the … Continue reading
We have discussed compliance testing earlier. This is known as testing to requirement. These requirements can be taken directly from a customer specification (when we have one) or derived internally from a requirements review or even both. Compliance testing … Continue reading
We should guard against our organization becoming enamored of the idea of “spot checking”. Spot checking, if done at all, should be based upon facts, calculations and historical record and not due to the logistical inconvenience of a hard date. … Continue reading
Requirements management and configuration management are required for anything that even closely resembles effective testing. Experience suggests failing in these two areas unnecessarily complicates the product verification activities, and we will show some of those traumas in the next few … Continue reading
We have witnessed a disconcerting trend. That trend is in consolidating risk reserves for projects into one, centrally managed bucket of money. This bucket was once reserved for the unknown-unknowns and was called a Management Reserve. However, more businesses are … Continue reading
By: Rick Edwards A good carpenter never blames his tools. There is also an aphorism “it is the poor musician who blames his instrument”. Why do so many good project managers blame their scheduling tool when their project schedule doesn’t … Continue reading
I know this is way off topic; however I thought we should post this. Below is a letter my brother and I sent to the Veterans Administration. Our father was in the Special Forces and served multiple tours in Vietnam. … Continue reading
We have recently had a discussion on what it takes to quality assure software. The discussion focused on FMEA and the role it plays in quality assurance. The discussion began to sound as if the FMEA was the panacea for … Continue reading