Category Archives: product quality
Improve Your Business With A Quality Management System Review
Once in a while it’s good to review your quality/business management system (structure, processes, requirements, etc) – we’ll focus on processes for the moment. The relevance of processes is critical. They must be useful to your staff, customers, partners and … Continue reading
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Peer Reviews Improve Product Quality and Project Delivery
Shock! They actually work! Peer reviews are an effective tool to improve the quality of deliverables – be they documents, code, tests, presentations, etc. Yet they are still not used in many companies. Why not? People don’t have the “time” … Continue reading
Imagine a Simpler Process
A client recently pointed out to us that we have a recurring theme in our blog posts recently – that of simplifying processes. This is not surprising as it’s one of our prime company service offerings. Even in a time … Continue reading
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Starting Again?
We recently conducted some seminars on process and methods use (or disuse). We did a quick poll of the audiences and were quite startled (though not entirely surprised) with the consistency of results. For all of the effort that has … Continue reading
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