Quality is what drives acceptance of the product.
- Commas for Zombies: A Punctuation Guide - Guidelines for proper use of the comma, before and during the Zombie Apocalypse. Continue reading
- High Failure Rate, Compared to What? - Studies such as the CHAOS report expound on the relatively high failure rate of IT projects. We need a more usable definition of success. Continue reading
- A Needlessly Complex User Experience - We expect our interactions to be obvious, rather than tedious. Time to value is the difference between acceptance and rejection of a product. Continue reading
- Managing Auditability (and other non-functional, non-technical requirements) - There are requirements that are neither functional nor technical, but still required for a project to be successful. Continue reading
- Received Knowledge, Fanaticism, and Software Consultants - We have to deal with the real reason so much code doesn't work correctly: bad coders. Continue reading
- Measuring Project Success - There is no simple, universal way to measure project success from all points of view. Continue reading
- Perfection is Over-rated - The plain truth is that there is a certain point - call it “good enough” – where you should stop polishing. Continue reading
- Making Change for a $5 Bill: Test Coverage - How many ways are there to “break” a five dollar bill? Understanding coverage in modern software testing. Continue reading
- Integrating Test Activities and Dependencies into the Project Critical Path - Final installment of test planning in IT projects. Integrating test activities and dependencies into the critical path. Continue reading
- Test Plans: Roles, Responsibilities and Scope - Part two in a series: common roles in planning, conducting, and assessing tests, and articulating the scope of testing. Continue reading
- Types of Testing - Fist installment of a series on creating and executing on project test plans. This installment: Types of testing. Continue reading
- Living and Working With My Inner Eighth Grade English Teacher - It’s difficult sharing my otherwise easy-going personality with a strong-willed alter ego - my inner eighth grade English teacher. Continue reading
- The Happy Path - System testing can be a great opportunity to build support among the user community. You just need to make the experience a good one. Continue reading
- UAT Is Not Testing - In user acceptance testing, the focus is on "acceptance" rather than "testing." Continue reading
- Defining Quality in IT Projects - Understanding quality expectations, and helping your customers to keep them realistic, is half of the job; managing the quality of the deliverables, while keeping costs under control, is the other half. Continue reading