- Quality and Testing out of control?
- No visibility on progress of testing and evaluation?
- No clear strategy as to what level of testing is required?
- Unknown level of risk at release?
- Finding out too late that quality is not good enough ?
- No consistent approach to quality and governance across projects?
- Unclear on who is responsible for quality and testing?
- Estimates and budgets are lacking?
- Unclear on whether testing is conducted efficiently?
- Separate testing activities are not coordinated?
- Accessing appropriate skills and resources is ad-hoc?
If so, it is time to get your quality assurance and testing organised. Through effective management of quality and testing you will acheive better quality outcomes with:
- Reduced production risks
- Quicker time-to-market
- Reduced costs
- Greater confidence
- Higher project success
To get testing under control, you need to "Get Organised" and "Manage Testing". Hence from February to April 2010, K. J. Ross & Associates are focusing on quality and test management issues under the theme of "Get Organised, Manage Testing". This is a planned schedule of whitepaper releases, awareness raising sessions, events, forums and training courses to improve your capability. The final event for "Get Organised, Manage Testing" is the 8th Australian Test Managers Forum, where you can interact with Australia's leading Test Managers, to discuss critical challenges and share solutions, case studies and war stories.
Depending on your focus, quality and test management issues are tackled at two levels, the organisation and project levels. We provide training and capability at either of these 2 levels.
| Organisation What senior management (CIOs, Project and Test Directors) need to do to control testing across multiple projects, programmes and portfolios. This includes issues such as responsibilities, processes, governance, reporting, resourcing, budgeting and metrics. |
Project What Test and Project managers need to do to control testing for their individual projects. This includes issues such as test strategy, risk assessment, estimation and budgeting, planning and scheduling, progress tracking, reporting. |
K. J. Ross & Associates can provide you with all the knowledge, skills, capability and resources to manage your quality and testing. We can help you do-it-yourself through knowledge sharing, training, coaching and mentoring, focused consulting, process improvement and skilled test manager secondments. Or if your want to outsource we can manage your quality and testing by part-time facilitation, team augmentation or outsourcing the entire testing outcome to our accredited test laboratory, or on-site team placement.
We're Ready to Help
As a part of "Get Organised, Manage Testing", we're running a survey to collect information on Test Management challenges. If you complete the survey, you'll go into the draw to win a one day TPI Assessment.
You may also like to participate in our Industry Benchmark, in which we are extending our software testing and quality industry study to benchmark the value perception of software testing, and to identify trends for IT executives regarding adoption of software testing and quality practices. This will be the most comprehensive benchmark undertaken in Australia to date.
"Get Organised, Manage Testing" - Let's Get Started...
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