Tag Archives: measuring software quality
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
Reviewing Efficiency & Effectiveness Of Your Company KPI/Metrics Program
Most companies collect various metrics. But are they the best ones to collect? How do you know if you are getting good value for the effect expended in collecting and reporting KPIs/metrics? You can use this list to get a … Continue reading
Filed under alignment, appraisals, CMMI, defects, improvement, innovation, ISO9126, KPI, metrics, PMO, ROI
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
Filed under agile, alignment, appraisals, audits, CMMI, improvement, innovation, method, organization change, people, problems, process improvement, ROI, sales, startup, strategy
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
Filed under agile, BPMN, CMMI, improvement, method, people, problems, process improvement, software quality, templates
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
Filed under agile, CMMI, defects, improvement, method, peer reviews, process improvement, software quality
A Bubblepoint view of Agile, CMMI and other quality improvements
At Zenkara we’ve seen many companies who have tried improvement after improvement year after year. Many of these have been applied in parallel e.g. CMMI and ISO9001, CMMI and 6 Sigma, Lean and EFQM and GQM. Yes after a time … Continue reading
Filed under agile, CMMI, improvement, people, problems, process improvement, software quality
Peer Review checklists and how you could use them
Before we go any further, this post is meant for people who prepare specs, plans, test scripts. If you don’t, then you probably don’t want to read further. There are lots of ways to conduct a document review: 1. Do … Continue reading
Filed under defects, improvement, metrics, peer reviews, people, process improvement
