Posted on July 15, 2008 by Paul Ritchie
Inspired by a post on Sharp End Training’s blog (here), my post (here), and a comment by PM Hut…
FYI, moved to right sidebar
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Posted on July 10, 2008 by Paul Ritchie
Elizabeth included this post from Sharp End Training’s blog (here). I agree with her assessment of the post. It is a good question but I would have like to seen a take on which corners are typically cut, not why corners were cut. FWIW, here are my top ten corners typically cut:
Stakeholder management planning
Executing planned [...]
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Posted on June 22, 2008 by Paul Ritchie
Thought-provoking post by mysticMundane on the Triple Constraint (here) – hat-tip to Michael at IT Project Failures (here). IMO, both yielded good insights, with some caveats. The good:
I always like to see quality included as essential to the triple constraint — Michael has the picture here — the scope isn’t delivered unless the work product conforms to requirements.
Scope [...]
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Posted on February 21, 2008 by Paul Ritchie
For those interested in both the hard and soft sides of quality, I highly recommend the “Feynman Appendix“ of the Rogers Commission report on the Columbia disaster.
Software gets a bad rap from “harder” engineering disciplines, but what was the one component of the shuttle whose engineering and quality “attitude” Feynman praised?
To summarize then, the computer software checking system [...]
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Posted on February 21, 2008 by Paul Ritchie
Apparently SDFC went down for a few hours on 11 February…
Salesforce.com’s release testing process is broken. Testing should have caught these problems before they were released into the wild.
OK, testing “should have…” is a truism. But don’t we forget what inherently complex machines packaged enterprise software are? Once configured and filled with data, aren’t they [...]
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