August 5, 2012 3:57 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
QTP,
software,
testing,
Testing Automation ToolsLogically it is not Quick Test Professional (QTP) versus Open Source Testing Tools but I would rather say it is a comparison between paid/ costly tools vis a vis open source tools which are supposed to be presumably free of cost tools. There can be a number of differences between the two categories...
August 5, 2012 3:02 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
Software Project,
software testing,
test automation toolTest Automation has become predominantly and unquestionably a 'must'do' entity in project management, especially of larger size and involving higher stakes. Scenarios are changing at a faster pace from legacy, orthodox, out of date waterfall model of testing to 'quick to attain perfection' in...
August 5, 2012 2:34 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
project manager,
Software ProjectThere is a lot of information that floats and flows between top management and customer management. Even though some of this information might not be directly linked to the project but might impact seriously on the growth and progress of the project thereby marring the tempo and momentum despite...
August 5, 2012 2:12 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
project manager,
software development,
Software Project,
software testingProject manager has to be a versatile and universal kind of entity in an organization rather than limiting him/herself to a particular department or specific focus area. Project Manager has to be visibly an overall scale predicting the progress and health of the project. He has to be informative...
August 5, 2012 1:43 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
Project Lifecycle,
project management,
project manager,
software development,
Software ProjectIf, for any kind of project, focus on three important areas when put right since the beginning of project; might help in attaining desired results and outcomes in appropriate, timely and within budget targets. The logistics are not mentioned here in terms of their importance as I feel all of them...
July 29, 2012 11:05 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
project manager,
Software Project,
software testingMeasure what is measurable and make measurable what is not. ~ Galileo Galilei
A code is always testable. large of small, but each piece of code that is catering to a specific need of the business must be tested thoroughly. A small piece unattended may spoil the whole product.
If...
July 29, 2012 10:22 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
Software Project,
software testingHeineken is one of the prime brands in liquor industry and one of the top beers sold across all continents on the globe. The whole credit of success of this Dutch beer brand becoming most popular across the globe goes to its founder Freddy Heineken. Freddy used to be too conscious about the quality...
July 29, 2012 10:01 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
software development,
Software Project,
software testingMahatma Gandhi always emphasized on the quality of work rather than quantity of work. He wrote once that it is the quality of work that will be easily able to please God rather than the quantity of work. A Programmer if takes a learning from here can go a long way in building bug-free code during...
July 29, 2012 9:03 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
project manager,
Software Project: It it not good to fail in all your projects and in achieving your goals. But it is inevitable to avoid failures or delays at times. This can happen in any kind of project and at any stage of the project. One bad habit that is counted as good is the 'Passion of Winning". Everyone has an urge to...
July 22, 2012 10:59 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
developer,
Project Lifecycle,
project management,
project manager,
software,
software development,
Software Project,
software testing,
tester,
testingWaterfall Video
Hey guys, this is not a technical video attached here in this post. This is a waterfall in a place called Panchkula near Jammu in India. This waterfall video I have watched n number of times and every nth time I watch it,...
July 22, 2012 10:30 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
software,
Software Project,
software testing,
tester,
testing
This new book on QTP for Web Testing is a simple, crisp and a must read for all beginners, novice and experts in the field of software...
July 22, 2012 8:51 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
developer,
Project Lifecycle,
project management,
project management. Software quality,
software,
software development,
Software Project,
software testing,
tester,
testingHi Guys, This is basically the video version of my long back posted article here on IT Knowledge Exchange website. Probably that is one of my earliest blogs and it got quite popular among readers belonging to Project Management, Software Projects, Quality Assurance, Quality Control fields.
Here...
July 21, 2012 1:41 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
QTP,
Software Project,
software testing,
tester,
testing
The book is precisely of 200 pages, if you include the last 2 pages meant to jot down notes. It is a well written, well titled, and...
June 30, 2012 11:59 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
Software Project1. Change in priorities are always a big hurdle in a project
2. Change is not always good
3. Change does not always brings in good
4. Change is good to avoid at times
5. Change in priorities will boost one project but at the cost of many other ongoing ones
June 30, 2012 11:52 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
Software ProjectAny project if goes well and ends well keeps drawing stakeholder’s attention during its lifecycle. This attention drawing goes all in positive manner, cheering teams, glorifying moments of milestones’ achievements, project completion etc. It might go other way round also in a way that it does...
June 30, 2012 11:20 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project constraint,
Project Development,
Project Lifecycle,
Project Management Methodology,
project requirement,
project stakeholder,
Software Project,
software qualityChange in requirements does happen frequently or infrequently depending on the acceptability level of development team. It also depends on how tightly activities are planned and milestones are being monitored. At times there are certain changes that come right in the middle of a project but shake...
June 30, 2012 10:46 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
Project Lifecycle,
project management evaluation checklist,
project manager,
software development,
Software Project,
software qualityChange in requirements is not an unknown phenomenon in any kind of project. In software development it is rather happens more frequently. The adaptability of asking for such changes from customer end and accepting such changes at vendor end is quite higher and syncs well to such an...
June 30, 2012 10:15 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
developer,
Project Lifecycle,
project manager,
software,
software development,
Software Project,
software qualityDevelopers are probably most creative group of people who keep themselves engaged in creating code all the time. Since perfection and human beings are some steps apart in whatsoever is done by human beings, there always is an urge found to strive for perfection. This is what makes them good...
June 4, 2012 2:27 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
project team,
team size,
team sizingTeam composition is one of the most critical tasks in any project. It if not the count of people that matters but it is the experience, level and maturity of team members that is to be focused upon while selection of members. Members with more open mind and fewer egos can do well as team members...
June 1, 2012 5:01 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
project milestones,
project reporting4. Milestones identification and achievement: Any project definitely needs perfect identification of milestones. Milestones have to be achievable, remarkable and not too distant from each other. Unless you identify quick milestones to project to management that things are moving in right direction,...
June 1, 2012 4:55 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
customer requirement,
project management,
team management,
team sizingThough it is difficult the assume in advance what kind of problems will percolate during a particular project but more or less all kind of problems faced during a project execution/ deployment/ management can be segregated in five top most reasons or categories. These generic segments/ reasons/...
May 19, 2012 6:12 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project analytics,
project metricsCPA (Critical Path Analysis) and PERT are well proven age old tools to use for scheduling and management of large and complex kind of projects. They came into existence in mid of 1950 when in US huge projects were looking for ways to control them in a systematic and objective manner rather than...
March 8, 2012 6:28 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project execution,
project managementAny Project team would comprise of various level and expertise carrying people. Expertise is different to technical strength. There might be a non-technical project, for instance, but would require almost equivalent level of expertise as in otherwise. Depending on the nature of project, team...
March 8, 2012 6:03 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project execution,
project managmentProject lifecycle consists of many stages. It starts from Project initiation phase. Although project initiation phase is the formal beginning of a project, actual project related initiations start well prior to that which gradually lead to this stage.
Though every stage of project management has...
February 25, 2012 7:38 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
project teamA project team decided to run the complete project lifecycle – initiation, development and deployment – without any involvement of a quality person. Does it mean the project team is totally ignorant about the quality factor in a project? Or does it mean that they are overconfident about...
February 25, 2012 7:27 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
project managerProject manager is too technical and less business savvy. In today’s world is it possible for a project manager to be highly tech savvy but lack in business knowledge of the domain or vertical in which he is assigned to run the project successfully.
It is possible, if it is too technical a...
January 28, 2012 1:54 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project failure,
project management,
project manager,
Project Risk,
project successBased on a report published on a research site, scope creep is one of the biggest culprits responsible for failure of project. Scope creep is nothing but shortfalls in the requirement gathering from...
January 28, 2012 1:12 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
info-tech research,
project failure,
project management,
project successAs per a report published by Info-Tech Research Group, in last two years there is a meagre 15 percent of organization across the globe that have been able to finish projects within the projected limits of time, budget and scope. It is really good to see that somewhere some group is able to achieve...
January 26, 2012 6:07 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
project manager,
Software ProjectSales department is the one that brings in the business for any organization. Most of the sales start with leads and cold calls which gradually transform into hot calls, though not all. Once customer show willingness towards product, sales team pushes the lead to techo-team so as to educate...
January 24, 2012 5:32 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
pmo,
project management,
project management office,
project managerPMO comprises of the core members of project management responsible to drive project in right direction under all kind of opposing situations. It is responsibility of PMO to ensure that project has to meet all milestones in project timeframe so as to reach to its final destination of success. Any...
January 24, 2012 5:18 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project failure,
project management,
project success,
Software ProjectWe all are human beings. Projects are made to be driven not only by human beings but it implies to all living world. Project comprise of deadlines, targets, follow-ups, meetings, team creation, team management, and so on. An apple plant has a target to bear apples when it grows into a tree. How...
January 22, 2012 5:17 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project failure,
project management,
project managerThere are ways to make a project successful and more number of ways to find out excuses for failures. There is no project that does not encompass of showstoppers, critical or serious issues. Most of the senior team members are always prepared to come across any unwanted or untoward issues arising...
January 11, 2012 5:45 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project execution,
Project Lifecycle,
project management,
project phaseProbably it is quite uncertain to predict that a project will run smooth throughout and will face no troubles of any kind during its any of the phases. It is practically impossible to believe it and claim at all about any kind of project sizing from very small to any big size. Troubles and hiccups...
December 29, 2011 6:54 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
software development,
software productProduct benefits, if really are there, in it, need not require any long explanations to the customer. Mostly a product rich in features and functionality do not require long introductions. Rather if a product is being tried to be sold with extra bounce of praises, it should be taken as a word of...
December 29, 2011 6:11 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
product development,
software product,
software testing6/6 vision is not bad. But having 6/6 and not having a capability to look beyond is something that degrades the value of even the correction vision. It is like something valuable that you possess but are not able to get the best out of it, ever! Planting is one time activity, but it is watering and...
December 28, 2011 5:15 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
project manager,
test team,
testerThere are different kinds of project managers – those who take testers as a threat and thus treat them as foes and those who take testers are friends and hence always welcome them to put hands on the product in pipeline. Neither of the two is a strange factor. Both scenarios are natural and...
December 26, 2011 7:15 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
code,
coder,
coding,
developer,
programmer,
tester,
testingShall we treat tester as a code destroyer? If on one hand a developer develops a code, a tester always tries to find out the holes in the pot. That is where a conflict on personal level originates when a programmer or coder takes it too personal by getting faults being found out in the code written...
November 27, 2011 6:55 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
project managerAn unconnected, isolated and purely professional project manager cannot and should not expect a connection between him and his team members on personal grounds. If this doesn’t affect the project manager it could be ok for his sake but as far as business and work is concerned, it is a well proven...
November 25, 2011 7:40 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
project stakeholder,
Software ProjectA project consists of various stakeholders – some internal and some external. Stakeholders of the project usually live on another planet. Being a stakeholder in a project give them a feel that they are like a king of the land called PROJECT ruling on the teams working in their project territory....
November 25, 2011 6:54 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project cost,
project management,
project sponsors,
self sponsored project,
Software ProjectAny project can be made successful if two of its components are left unnoticed, which are – expenses on the project and time limits. Though both of them are the most critical components and none of the projects on this earth can be run or finished on the basis of ignoring these two components....
November 24, 2011 6:13 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
Business function,
business process,
process capability,
process management,
process owner,
project management,
Software ProjectA big corporate starts new business and hence a new company takes birth. Though it is a new setup, there is a mix of old and new employees and similar is the case with business processes. Some old processes are adopted as it is, whereas some process are formed totally newly based on the learning...
November 20, 2011 2:52 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
Project,
project management,
Software ProjectNo management ever wants any of the ongoing large scale projects in the organization getting failed or substantially delayed due to two main factors – one, their reputation is at stake, and two, they are bound to lose some of their personal financial kitty in that case. But still we see many of...
November 20, 2011 1:57 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
erp project,
project management,
Software ProjectI recently visited a reputed international manufacturing company having 98% revenues from exports to various countries. The setup was somewhat like 3 manufacturing units in a major metro, creating a sort of zone. Another manufacturing unit was in a far off place taking 4 days to reach by road...
November 15, 2011 5:36 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
ERP,
Greenfield project,
project management,
Software ProjectERP implementation in a Greenfield project that takes place for a new factory or office setup, as per my understanding, should be totally different from a conventional ERP implementation that takes place in an already running plant of office environment. None of the modules as such are required to...
November 7, 2011 5:15 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
project manager,
Software ProjectA regular type of work all the time makes it boring and typed thereby taking away all the variety that one needs in life for progress. This leads to a stale state of mindset where you set yourself limited to only one kind of thinking that to a certain extent. Some ice breaking is required to get...
November 7, 2011 5:03 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project managementLet us consider a project as a journey. For any journey you need to decide about lot of things in advance and during the journey. Time to time these decisions need to be looked into even if the journey has started to ensure that even if those have been taken, are they leading you to right direction...
October 6, 2011 3:32 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
e-learning,
FISMA,
GLBA,
HIPAA,
HITECH and Red Flag,
information security,
PCI,
project management,
security awareness,
SOXE-learning is the trend these days. It has dissolved any geographic boundaries and made this world too small for the purpose of delivering and getting the Best. To make any learning most effective, the trainer must be much focussed and aware/ capable of delivering the crux of the...
September 29, 2011 4:29 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
QA,
QA Manager,
QCFormulating your test strategies, test plan, QA vision, mission etc. on the same trend year on year without changing according the changes happening around the world could lead to a disaster. For instance being a QA Head, you would have clear cut instructions for your QC Head to...
September 29, 2011 3:59 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
product management,
project management,
project managerA project manager’s shell is his projects. Most of his life is spent in moving from one shell to another shell after spending a substantial amount of time, energy and efforts in each shell. Its quite funny if he introspects after a decade or so to analyze what exactly has he...
