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Showing posts with label QA/Testing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label QA/Testing. Show all posts
Monday, 16 March 2015

QA Manager Job Spec

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As a Software & Systems Engineering Management Consultant, I spend a lot of my time helping senior management sort out their departm...
Monday, 16 February 2015

Non Functional Requirements and Sluggishness

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There is a lot of talk about whether writing code, or creating software, is really an art, a craft, or is it a highly disciplined, softwar...
Thursday, 17 April 2014

Use Root Cause Analysis (RCA) in Sprint Retrospectives to Improve Quality

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A couple of years ago, I wrote an exhaustive piece about how software and systems projects need to focus on effective quality management a...
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Sunday, 2 March 2014

Applying Google's Test Analytics ACC model to Generic Set Top Box Product

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Early this year, I recently completed, what I felt was the best software book I've read in a really long time:  How Google Tests Soft...
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Saturday, 15 February 2014

Sticky Metaphors for Software Projects: Bankable Builds, Surgical Mode

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In this post I share an experience from a recent project where I influenced the senior management team to change strategy & tactics, by...
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Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Agile team goals - straw man...

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Over the past few years, going back since 2004, when I first started working in an agile-like fashion to present day, I've seen compan...
Monday, 4 November 2013

Nissan Motors Production Line and Software Systems Development

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This week I was invited by @Farid from Crossbolt to tour the Nissan Production Line in Pretoria , to see first-hand the Lean / Kanban / K...
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Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Programme / Systems Readiness Heat Maps

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In the past I've written about the make up of the Digital TV (DTV) ecosystem or "value chain" making it quite clear that th...
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Monday, 29 April 2013

Pragmatic Set-Top-Box QA Testing - Don't just trust Requirements-to-Test Coverage scripts

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This post might be a little edgy - I think it's important to understand alternative perspectives around Set-Top-Box (STB) testing, how...
Saturday, 27 April 2013

Worlds of QA Testing in Digital TV Systems Projects

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I have previously written about the Digital TV ecosystem with its complexities and challenges in defining the Architecture & Systems ...
Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Modeling Software Defect Predictions

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In this post I will share yet another tool from my PM Toolbox : A simple method any Software Project Manager can use for predicting the li...
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Wednesday, 23 January 2013

SI QA Sanity Tests debate...round one

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Today, after 19 months of joining the company & about 18 months from getting involved with ongoing projects, we finally decided to have...
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Friday, 16 November 2012

Process for Fast-Tracking Issues - The Daily Scrub

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In this post I'd like to share a simple, yet effective process to managing the defect discovery phase, typical experienced during the...
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Wednesday, 28 March 2012

Effective Defect/Quality Management...

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Continuing with the theme of highlighting the core tenets of managing a Digital TV Programme, having previously discussed the following in...
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