Why tester’s involvement is important in requirement gathering ?
It is very much important to include testing practices as early in the project as possible. The classic late involvement of testing in projects limits their efficiency. By the time testers get involved, all the development defects are already in the code, which makes detecting them much harder and fixing them much more costly. Late [...]
Working with SMEs -Joys and Sorrows of it!
An enterprise or business that is small by its number of employees or turnover comes under the category of SME/ SMB/ MSME/ SOHO.
SME stands for Small and Medium Enterprises,
SMB stands for Small and Medium Businesses,
MSME Stands for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
SOHO stands for Small Office/ Home Office
The basic criterion is the [...]
Migration or Reengineering – A Choice to Make
In today’s world where technology growing so fast, and it is difficult to for most organizations to keep up with the pace it is changing. Also there are few factors like changes in business demands or technology challenges either to improve operational efficiency or to manage risk of technological growth creates a need for migration/reengineering [...]
IT in an Enterprise - Is “Cloud App Support” next?
Information Technology in an enterprise has evolved and have made significant progress in adopting practices to reduce costs - which include outsourcing, cloud computing, open source and other such models.
The main area of focus for any organizations CIO is to find creative and effective ways to reduce IT cost, improve service levels and align technology [...]
Managing Technology - A pain for startups.
We all know that it just takes an idea to be a successful especially in today’s world where people are ready to invest in your ideas. However with increasing competition; path to success is getting difficult day-by-day and distance between success and failure is shrinking.
Today’s entrepreneurs have much more to manage than ever before. [...]
The Art of Executive Status Reporting
Over the last more than 20 years of my experience in the global IT industry, one of the key challenges I have noticed is the lack of clear and concise status reporting. Executive Management of any organization is dependent on timely availability of accurate status reports to enable them to track the progress and budget [...]
Automation: Key to Business Service Improvement
Less than 10 percent of U.S. companies claim to have been extremely effective in automating their processes. It’s a huge area of improvement specially Small/mid size organization dont’ pay much attention to this area.
We can effectively cut cost many fod an improve the quality/productivity.
QA Team is secondary to Development Team
Here are some observations and trends in the industry about Software Quality Assurance that have always troubled us as a company.
QA Teams are secondary to Development Teams - It is reflected in the amount of time allocated to their function, lower compensation of the team members and lower rates in case of consultants. In reality [...]