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A Day in Refactoring Agile Project Process Part 1
8am Breakfast Meeting We’re here with the project team and find ourselves in the local coffeeshop. Attending is the entire project team (2 BAs, 6 developers, 1 tester, project team lead) and a number of managers and PMO rep. We … Continue reading
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Project Reviews and Alignment With Strategy
How often do we see project healthchecks, appraisals, assessments, audits, reviews, and company breathalyzers where the results are praised by management and then shelved. Perhaps even with the best of intentions: Management didn’t agree with the findings They didn’t have … Continue reading
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Experiences with recruiting quality and process improvement staff
I was recently asked for some advice about recruiting quality and process improvement managers and analysts. Like many roles, these people can have a significant impact across an organisation. Get it right and you’ll see productivity improvements across the company; … Continue reading
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Turn Audits into Learning Experiences
I recently described to a client the method we use to improve the effectiveness of quality audits and assessments. Often after several years of audits within a company, the effectiveness of audits decreases. Even though an auditor uses their standard-prescribed … Continue reading
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5 Steps To Improving Your Business Processes
I’ve had several conversations lately about the need to streamline and simplify processes. This is particularly relevant with all the focus on cost cutting and finding savings. Though it’s always important not to cut TOO many corners – it’ll always … Continue reading
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The shield of process improvement
One of the more precarious traits of organisations with well-established quality systems (procedures, work instructions etc) is that of using process as a shield. The quality system is in effect being used against itself. When asked why they perform a … Continue reading
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A Software Process Improvement Portfolio
Subsequent to my previous post, I thought we could clarify some issues using a Software Process Improvement Portfolio approach. As noted earlier many methods appear to extol the same virtues and build up a strawman of other methods to differentiate … Continue reading
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Method junkies: All or nothing
Recently a colleague of mine described a problem he has with his company. When the company management decides to undertake new initiatives, they select only those where they can implement “everything”. They had selected ISO9001 several years ago and thereafter … Continue reading
Filed under CMMI, improvement, people, process improvement, software quality
