Improving quality can have a surprisingly stressful impact on your project testing organization. A good set of quality metrics can help keep your improvements on track as your organizations adjusts to the new reality.
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September 29, 2009 Bruce Benson
Testing
Your test organization will often provide the first indicator that you’ve improved how you do business. How this shows up however, might be rather different than you would expect. Test organizations do not always handle it well when quality improves.
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September 24, 2009 Bruce Benson
Testing
There are some great project management tool techniques such as Six Sigma and Monte Carlo that can boost your productivity. Sometimes these techniques, if used too early, may be too strong a medicine for your organization.
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September 14, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Schedule
Get out of sync with what everyone else is doing. When our project is not succeeding and we keep doing what was done in the past, we are going to get the same results. The path to improvement often means being disruptive.
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September 7, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Look into using your existing business systems as part of your project management tools. The business systems used by everyone to do their daily jobs can often provide more current and predictive information than relying solely on our traditional project management tools.
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September 2, 2009 Bruce Benson
Communication, Reporting
