Performance Assurance
Here are two interesting propositions. Number one; test managers should focus on getting as quickly as possible to a state where it is obvious that fu...
Software & Programme Management Blogs
The ‘Safe Harbour’ Concept of Project Risk
For some time a set of ideas on ways to think about risk have been floating around here. We are sceptical about current risk management models and app...
Software & Programme Management Blogs
Creating More Resilient Software Projects
Owners of software intensive projects need to recognise the inherent challenges and fluid nature of the endeavours being attempted. A move away from a...
The Benefits of Smarter Testing a Project Manager Today Article
This article was originally published in Project Manager Today magazine The Benefits of Smarter Testing Organisations that treat testing as a nec...
Software & Programme Management Blogs
Sponsor verses project risk
Many organisations, rightly, attempt to assess risk as a way of governing and directing the projects they do. They recognise the importance of this bu...
Skimming the Surface
We have just hit something that occurs time and time again; that is testing the interface without looking at what is going on below the surface. It is...
Requirements Engineering Blogs
Requirements can work at many levels; so decide in advance which levels are required.
Despite the trend in software development that thinks of requirements as old hat many people still do and always will work with requirements. This fac...
Requirements Engineering Blogs
Integration Strikes Again
When I get into the client’s office this morning I have to do a conference call to look at how well the integration of two of their systems (via a thi...
The return of an old friend.
I have just encountered an old friend of mine; one that I see most places I go. My friend is that recurring defect – the different date format b...