Software Quality Information

Software Quality In Action makes effective use of established best practices for a company writing software to help generate their product. The software development process must ensure high quality to remain visible and successful in any business climate. Software Quality In Action use processes management that is scalable and adaptable, and can be targeted to any and all project team members. Project team leaders are the primary focus of our effort to help and software engineering environment to:Produce an acceptable defect level (zero is always the goal) and manage defects to resolution management standardsIdentify risks and track them to a project's completion, including discussion in a lessons-learned processProduce meaningful information all interested parties can relate to so those parties can respond when needed in a pro-active, resolution-centered process climate. To allow responsible parties to make adjustments based on timely and accurate information. The adjustments can be made to areas of cost (effort and other capitalization) and schedule (and other residual effects). Projects team members are also a focus:To understand the importance behind the non-software effort for the firmTo know how to effectively feed the reporting requirements of the projectAllow those with team leadership potential to be clearly identified and developedCompany owners and leaders can be more confident in their decisions because:The 'balance sheet' of a project through metrics and variance reporting is more trustworthy and has more proven accountability through regular subjective and objective process audit processes. The firm's leaders can spend more time enhancing the business. Your project teams are more pro-active and self-managing to meet your organization's gaols with established standards. This provides you with the information needed to help make informed decisions at all levels based on good and current dataSoftware Quality In Action provides the needed objective view of a project with regards to the process management plus and increased measure of trust your products will continue to be profitableSoftware Quality In Action is not a management consultancy giving good theories and some viable methods you can use to generate your own Software Development Life Cycle environment and then leave. We are action based and results oriented that will stay on board with you. How all this is accomplished is making sure a defined Software Development Life Cycle is in place of viable policies, processes and procedures to consistently meet your organizational goals and objectives. Project Plans put this into practice for each project with each interested party signing off on the overall plan, and their related involvement throughout the life of the project including post-implementation follow-up. Software Quality In Action can be involved at different levels for your projects to ensure the best software process management is in place. Capability Maturity Model (CMMI) is used as a recognized and proven standard to measure the designed effectiveness of a firm's Software Development Life Cycle. Each level of involvement would be provided as a service as contracted:Simple, scheduled reviews of Software Development Life Cycle artifactsAnalysis of projectsFollow-through of an analysis to a completed resolutions of problems foundFormal audits with scoring and analysisAudits with complete follow-through to completed resolutions of problems foundIn Addition:Analysis of your established procedures with recommendations.All levels of training for project team leaders, members, company owner/operators, stakeholders/interested parties. Coaching and mentoring for teams or individualsDeploying a method of Software Process Improvement to help each team member see how they can improve their involvement in software engineering. Project management includes good skills dealing with team members, ability to multi-task, keeping customers/users happy, dealing with vendors to protect your firm, procurement of good team members and assets, and being a champion for your important causes on high-visibility efforts. These are part of good project management leadership. This is not part of our expertise. We bring software process management to keep your projects in alignment with your needs and concerns. Software Quality In Action provides some of the project management tools to help with these and other non-process management issues. In our role Software Quality In Action has a ripple effect making many areas of software production better for you, your firm, your project team leaders and members and for your customers. This includes where someone else (a vendor, contractor) is doing actual software engineering and development, and you need capabilities to have oversight for the work being done. Mutual agreement is managed and established best practices how to lay out the game plan is utilized in developing each relationship. We would like to hear about your project needs and we can show you how Software Quality In Action will add value to your software efforts and more profit to your bottom line!