The Quality Conundrum Resources, risk, and time-to -market are often in conflict as IS teams strive to deliver quality applications within their budgetary constraints.

Resource

Many groups of people will contribute to the overall quality of an application, but they are all under increasing pressure to enhance their productivity.

• Development groups need to effectively test the application before it is passed to quality assurance
• QA teams are under immense pressure as they perform the final steps in the development process - everything   possible must be done to enhance their efficiency.
• The number of occasions when business staff are diverted onto testing assignments needs to be kept to a minimum - so capturing and transferring their knowledge is essential.

Increasing resources alone will not guarantee reduced risks or shorter timescales.

Risk

Today's business environment means risks sometimes have to be take to obtain competitive advantage.

However, unmanaged risks in IS developments can have disastrous consequences. Application failures can lead to a loss of external and internal confidence and cause damage to your brand, which in turn can have a negative effect on the revenue stream.

Timely, comprehensive quality assurance is the key contributor to managing risk to the business from application failures.

Time

No successful business will survive unless their products and the way they approach their markets evolve. Senior management rightly expects information systems to fully and rapidly support their business initiatives, and this has had a dramatic effect on acceptable development timescales.

The Quality Imperative

Application quality is no longer an activity within the software development lifecycle that IS teams can aspire to improve. It is a business imperative that demands a solution right now.

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