Two new Baseline columns up
By bfwebster on Sep 24, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, Development, IT Project Management, Main, Management, Quality assurance, Software engineering, Surviving Complexity
The first column, “Second Class Software Quality for Major IT Projects”, talks about the curious fact that organizations are willing to spend millions, tens of millions, even hundred of millions of dollars on major IT project and yet still nickle-and-dime their software quality assurance (SQA) effort. It doesn’t help that SQA personnel are pretty much on the bottom of the tech status totem pole, either.
The second column, “Do Not Defer The Difficult in IT Projects”, describes the all-too-human tendency in IT development to put off dealing with the toughest problems until last — at which point, you may not be able to solve them all. It also explains why so many IT projects get 80-90% “done” and then suddenly slip for weeks or months without making much progress.
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