Q-Course Quality and Organization E-Book Sample

Description
This ebook will be relevant for anybody involved in quality in a business, and that means everyone. Not just the quality assurance testing guys. Quality usually relates to everything within an organisation.

The management of the organisation are especially involved in quality to ensure optimal process organization and efficient time and cost management. Generally, testing and quality aren't the most popular of jobs. People like creativity and creating new things. They see testing and quality as 'dirty work.' A lot of people think that anyone can carry out testing.

Consequently, when the organisation faces difficult times, testing and quality are the first to go. The developers are then expected to test the products themselves. It's clear that the developers aren't going to be fully objective. Developers are generally proud of what they've done, and do not like to admit that the creation needs a lot of work. As well as this, after a while people become blind to the mistakes they've made. All too often there is not enough knowledge surrounding quality and testing. This book aims to change that.

Time and money pressures often affect development projects. In the triangle of time-cost-quality, quality is usually the most underrated. Projects run out often, but the deadline remains important. Most of the time, quality checks start at the end of product development, however quality is not an integrated part of development, and so the time for proper testing inevitably runs out. This book examines how this can be improved.