Profits archives - Quality Assurance and Project Management

Quality Assurance and Project Management:

profits

Feb 25 2009   10:02AM GMT

Top 20 End Objectives of any Software Project



Posted by: Jaideep
Software Project, software business, software project management, project objectives, business survival, growth, revenues, profits, maturity, Project Lifecycle, standards and methodology, software metrics, stakeholders, transparency, project completion, project sign-off, customer satisfaction, customer delight, customer requirements, software requirements, Team building, team role, team responsibility, team accountability, software quality, project quality, first time right, project overrun, continuous learning, Increase in revenue, Avoid revenue loss, Reduce costs, Avoid cost increases, Improved service

Certainly and obviously, every business has a set of objectives. Every business strives for survival, growth, revenues, profits, satisfaction and maturity. The clearer the objective are, the easier it is to achieve them. To achieve the objectives, if the destination is clear, it becomes easier to set the direction of the business, to set the milestones, to chalk out the roadmap, to set the drive, to decide the pace and to achieve them. The top 20 end objectives of any software project can be listed as below (note that the hierarchy is not as critical as the understanding of the gravity of each of the objective):

  • 1. Control on Project Lifecycle

    2. Standards and Methodology

    3. Metrics

    4. Stakeholders rights

    5. Transparency

    6. Pro-active approach to avoid post-mortem

    7. Universal approach for similar projects

    8. Timely completion, sign-offs and payments

    9. Customer satisfaction and delight

    10. Customer requirements and both end clarity on objectives of the product

    11. Team building

    12. Roles, responsibilities and accountability

    13. Continuous Learning from failures/ overruns – no repetition of same mistakes to achieve continuous improvement overall

    14. First time right approach

    15. Quality right from start – ongoing – every step

    16. Increase in revenue

    17. Avoid revenue loss

    18. Reduce costs

    19. Avoid cost increases

    20. Improved service