Two Questions for Quality Manager and Project Manager

1. At times development, requirement freezing gets done side by side and that too at customer location. In that case the product undergoes a lot of changes based on customer feedback on daily basis and finally product gets ready as per development team and customer.

After that it comes to QA for testing.

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Project Management and Project Estimation

No project can be started without estimations. The estimations are to be done about the resources, manpower, team compositions, budgets, releases, development and so on. Estimating software is not an easy task. Production estimations are simpler as compared to service delivery estimations.

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Project Management and Project Measurement

Measurement is important to manage. We manage money in our bank by keeping a track of the credits and debits. The performance and versatility of project management goes in the same manner. There are plans, estimations, targets, budgets, resource crunch and so on in any project.

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Project Management Methodology and Tools

Project management is an active stream worldwide. New methodologies and technologies are being produced and introduced from various corners of the world. Some organizations are quite active in optimization of software project management. By optimization we understand the productivity and quality increase. Some of the technologies and methodologies are not as effective as others.

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Why Business Requirements Matter Most in Project Success

Business requirements and customer specifications when are met perfectly above 90% in the software built; such software has least chances of failing due to quality or customer acceptance. Definitely the time schedules are always important but such products where business requirements and customer specifications are understood well and built perfectly in the software will require least changes at later stages.

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Software Project and Product Cost Models

If customer requirements and business process are not the top priority during the software development; then the software built will have a very short future and less commercial value. This is because, if the software can not cater to manage or enhance any business, its demand will be very low in the market.

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Software Project and Business Purpose

The purpose of a business seeking software application to cater to a business process or a group of business processes is to optimize the business. The requirements emerge through the key process owners of the business. The requirements analysis and gathering phase is the most crucial of all stages of a software project.

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Project Management and Project Defects

A study shows that incomplete, improper or imperfect requirements collection during business and requirement study leads to 70% defects in the final product. The shortfalls in the software product delivered to customer affect its business process not only initially but for long. As long as, till the shortfalls are identified and fixed.

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Software Project and Project Budget

Around 50% of software projects either overshoot the timeline/ targets, cross the stipulated budget, or do not satisfy customer regarding the features and functionalities. The plan overshoot is definitely deciding factor for the budget overshoot. These delays not only affect budgets, schedules, organizational reputation etc. but also decrease the customer base and business.

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Software Development Project and Rework

As per study software development team on an average spends almost 40% of their time on rework. The rework requirements may arise by way of – development team revisiting their code and finding out some lacunae; Quality control test/ bug report; or requirements fine tuning at customer end during the implementation or UAT phase.

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Software Project Success in Human Context

Using best methodologies, procedures, tools and practices do matter. But what matter more is the human factor. It is the people who have to drive the project. As best people under perform in subdued conditions, similarly the best of the tools and methodologies will not be able to get you the optimum benefits out of them unless you have good team members, administration staff, team leaders, project manager, tester etc.; if not the best.

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Software Project Turning into Success OR Failure by use of Tools and Methodologies

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