It’s Fair. We Have To Fix Someone Else’s Problems
It’s not fair. When we screw up, it’s fair, we have to fix it. But it feels less fair when we have to fix someone’s else’s problems.
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What’s In Your Methodology?
They all sounded good in theory, but our ability to attain the complete and stated goal of the development phase was limited.
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Lessons Learned From The US Internal Revenue System
More money, more people and more time is not always the solution. Sometimes -- often times -- the solution is simply to take another approach, such as trusting people.
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Got Big Data? Free It For The Greatest Results
An warning message from a satellite 1.5 million kilometers in space that gets processed within seconds then waits for someone to type it into an email. Why?
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Are We Just Duplicating Our Problems?
Those darn quality testers kept reporting the same issues, over and over again. This duplicate defect reporting was causing more issues than it was fixing!
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Practicing To Fail In Order To Succeed Big
"You need to have more ‘gotcha’ fees, that’s how airlines make their money." Maybe Dogbert was on to something?
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Too Many Rules Mean Something Is Wrong With Our Project Management
We had the premier project for the organization and we were determined to finally get a product out on-time and with good quality. We did it, and in doing so highlighted how many of our rules were not really helping us to complete a quality project.
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Project Management Quality Needs Data Not Beliefs
It was a high level meeting. Lots of VPs. It included our Corporate Chief Quality Officer. He was a big man with a booming voice and was very intimidating to the other VPs.
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The One Key Step For Successful Improvements
The key step? We have to change something that will actually help us. Here, “test every line of code” made a huge difference in this software organization. This is the first of several articles on basic changes that made a huge difference and why they worked.
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The Busiest Project Test Organization Was Also The Best
A busy project test organization can mean your products are having problems. In this case however, the fact they were very busy helped the test organization to stay objective about reporting dramatically improved test results without missing a beat. Other test teams described in this series of articles reacted in inefficient ways when product quality improved dramatically.
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