January, 2011

Quality Control Of Bug Report

A good writer is one who pays equal weightage to proof reading or editing of his work besides being focussed on content quality and writing style. For every new work that a good writer produces, he doesn’t mind spending some more time on it and getting some different opinion on...

Some Teammates Make A Big Difference

Presence of some particular teammates in their team makes a big difference in terms of team momentum, tempo, confidence and quality of delivery along with high rate of delivery. Some team members are self starters and self goers while others need ignition from others. But there is...

Key Difference Between Lean And Agile Testing In Project Management

Lean and Agile are two keywords being widely used nowadays in most of corporate world engaged in production or development work across the globe. Let us see how these two terms fit in quality assurance and control of software development in software industry. Main focus of Lean...

Lean Organization Architecture And Project Management

An Organization and project management cannot be treated as two separate parallel entities in Lean environment. If one is treated as a whole system, another becomes a subset of it. Waste created in organization cannot be treated as a non impacting factor on project teams. Project...

Backlog Monitoring Helps Greatly In Accurate Estimations

There is a strong relationship between backlog and estimations oblique planning. In software project management during development phase development team is deeply engrossed in development of product in question. There has to be somebody who needs to minutely analyze backlog at...

Ten Facts About Product Backlog

Project Management Lessons From Cricket Coach John Wright

Cricket and software project management has no link. Neither has John Wright, the New Zealand cricket team coach. But there are certain things happening around in international cricket that can help as learning for project management. In ongoing series between Pakistan and New...

Consistent Delivery Does Matter In Case Of Project Manager

Let us take a case of project manager X who is well recognized in his organization for his capability of doing task well and before time, delivering project in time and up to the complete satisfaction of his management and customer, delivering in a quality way. It has happened due...

Treat Bugs As Software Enhancers

Bugs are a gentle reminder to respective developer and a sort of alarm for him to check nothing has been skipped as per user and business perspective. Bugs also act as useful and productive communication initiators between tester and developer till the individual loop gets closed...

Business Value And Its Consistency

Business value is not easy to ascertain, sustain, manage, monitor and improvise upon on a regular basis. But it is very important to do so. Somewhere sometime during my career one of my seniors advised me a very harsh truth of life. It was – “you cannot sit on your laurels”....

Business Value And Sustenance

Business value is never a constant. It changes with time. Its parameters also may change from time to time. A factor which could be inconsiderable a certain point of time may emerge as a considerable factor to be included at a later stage. So that means the number of factors and...

Business Value And Software Product

There has been a long debate for many decades regarding quantification of business value. Is it possible to really quantify business value? Perhaps the answer would be no from most of us. Reason being it is actually not possible to quantify hundred percent. And probably the efforts...