From 322a20fac971679c0a2d463129850b0284f5781f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dorin solomon Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:33:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] streamlined the quality strategy content --- .../06-development-effectiveness/_3.md | 2 +- docs/quality-strategy/01-overview.md | 114 ++++++++++++++++++ ...rategy.md => 02-intro-quality-strategy.md} | 0 docs/quality-strategy/02-overview.md | 103 ---------------- docs/quality-strategy/05-how-it-works.md | 60 ++++----- .../03-system-level-test-strategy-template.md | 2 +- ...-tricks-for-creating-quality-strategies.md | 19 ++- src/pages/index.tsx | 2 +- 8 files changed, 151 insertions(+), 151 deletions(-) create mode 100644 docs/quality-strategy/01-overview.md rename docs/quality-strategy/{01-intro-quality-strategy.md => 02-intro-quality-strategy.md} (100%) delete mode 100644 docs/quality-strategy/02-overview.md diff --git a/docs/quality-maturity-model/key-components/06-development-effectiveness/_3.md b/docs/quality-maturity-model/key-components/06-development-effectiveness/_3.md index 037f991..70f1542 100644 --- a/docs/quality-maturity-model/key-components/06-development-effectiveness/_3.md +++ b/docs/quality-maturity-model/key-components/06-development-effectiveness/_3.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ - Software development practices are well-defined and documented, aligned at the Tribe level, in a consistent format (the [Quality Strategy](/docs/quality-strategy/understanding-quality-strategy)), and are consistently followed by all squads. - **Continuous Integration (CI)** is set up to ensure code quality isn't compromised with new changes. - The **new code** is backed by Unit and Integration tests, which are consistently updated and maintained. -- A [shift-left](../../../quality-strategy/05-how-it-works.md#shift-left) approach is regularly employed, leading to early defect identification and remediation. +- A shift-left approach is regularly employed, leading to early defect identification and remediation. - **Test Coverage** is measured and optimized per test level (unit, integration, system). - Every time a change is made, an **automated build** and test process (unit, property, integration, system) is executed. Failures are investigated and fixed proactively. - Builds are not left broken. diff --git a/docs/quality-strategy/01-overview.md b/docs/quality-strategy/01-overview.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..02c2699 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/quality-strategy/01-overview.md @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ +--- +title: Overview +metaTitle: Overview +slug: /quality-strategy/overview +--- + +## Introduction + +:::info + +The quality strategy presents **a path to building better software**, streamlining decision-making, optimizing resource use, fostering better teamwork, and ultimately **delivering more value to users**. +It brings a common language, visibility, clarity, and efficiency to IO’s software development process. + +::: + +**The Quality Strategy is about envisioning success and paving the way to achieve it.** + +Strategy illustration + +The quality strategy tool is designed to foster a structured and proactive approach to quality in software development projects. It ensures that every phase of the product's development adheres to high-quality standards, leaving no detail unconsidered, thereby improving both the efficiency and outcomes of all projects. + +## Objectives + +### Clear vision & goals + +The quality strategy focuses on defining a clear vision of success and establishing goals to achieve high-quality software. +It ensures that every team member understands the intended outcomes and works intentionally toward delivering value to end-users. +By combining both forward and backward-looking perspectives, the strategy helps our teams plan for optimal results while ensuring that +all necessary quality checks are in place before releasing new features or products. This approach ensures that every task is +performed deliberately, aligning actions with the desired outcomes. + +### A path to building better software + +The quality strategy, covering the entire SDLC, helps us streamline decision-making, optimize resource use, enhance teamwork, +and ensure that software delivers real value to our users**. By prioritizing small, focused iterations and obtaining quick feedback, +the strategies help our teams concentrate on what matters most, ensuring that each task is completed with care. This approach allows for +greater efficiency, adaptability, and clarity, resulting in high-quality software that better meets user needs. + +** Delivering **real value\*\* refers to focusing on fewer things at a time, making small and frequent iterations, +and getting quick feedback. It's about finishing what’s started instead of taking on too much all at once. This approach, +driven by a clear strategy, ensures all energy goes into what really matters. By doing less but doing it well, it is possible +to build better software that meets users' needs more effectively so the organization stays efficient, adapts quickly, and ensures +the work really meets the goals and needs it's supposed to, delivering real value every step of the way. + +### Proactive quality integration and validation throughout the SDLC + +A quality strategy ensures that quality is built into every phase of software development through a forward-thinking approach. +The quality strategy anticipates challenges early, helping our teams proactively address risks, define test approaches, and assign +responsibilities. It provides a clear plan for how quality will be assured, validated, and tracked, ensuring that the software +consistently meets business needs and user expectations. By integrating quality assurance from the start, our teams can effectively +manage risks and deliver reliable, high-quality products. + +### Increased efficiency & reduced waste + +By establishing and adopting clear quality guidelines and practices, a quality strategy can streamline operations, reduce errors, +and lower costs associated with rework and quality control issues. + +### Consistent delivery of high-quality products + +One of the primary goals of the quality strategy tool is to establish a common, unified, structured approach to software development that, +like a recipe, consistently delivers high-quality products and services. + +### Continuous improvement + +Quality strategies help organizations envision and implement mechanisms for continuous feedback and improvement, allowing projects +and teams to adapt to changing conditions and technologies while improving their processes. + +### Company-wide quality mindset and culture + +By fostering a proactive approach to quality, the strategies ensure that everyone takes responsibility for minimizing complexity, +risk, and waste. It encourages every team member to prioritize quality at every stage of the SDLC, building reliable and secure +products that enhance the user experience. This shared mindset leads to more thoughtful decision-making and a culture of continuous +improvement across the organization. + +## Benefits + +### Faster time to market + +Quality strategies streamline the development lifecycle by catching defects early, reducing waste and inefficiencies, +and optimizing time and resources for faster, more efficient product delivery. + +
+ Fast vs. cheap vs. good + +

Sources: https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html, https://mike-bland.com/2023/10/12/what-software-quality-is-and-why-it-matters.html.

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+ +### Stronger reputation and brand image + +Delivering high-quality software builds trust and establishes a positive reputation for the organization. This can lead to increased customer confidence, improved brand image, and a competitive edge in the market. + +### Faster Bootstrapping of New Products + +A quality-oriented mature software development culture provides a solid foundation of tools and processes to be leveraged when +developing new products. This allows the organization to expedite the introduction of these products to the market. + +### Common language and enhanced collaboration + +Quality strategy would allow Input Output to align expectations and use a **common language**. When everyone speaks the same language, everyone understands each other better, eliminates ambiguity, and **improves collaboration**. A shared vocabulary will ensure that everyone’s on the same page, fostering stronger synergy across all levels and projects. + +The quality strategy fosters a culture where continuous feedback and open dialogue about quality processes are encouraged, enhancing collaboration and trust across teams. + +### Risk mitigation + +Quality strategies help in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks associated with product or service quality, providing visibility into identified risks and mitigations, ultimately reducing overall costs and increasing ownership and accountability among teams, preventing potential failures, customer dissatisfaction, or reputational damage. + +### Better control over outsourced development + +When working with external vendors or contractors, having consistent quality practices ensures that they adhere to the same standards as your internal teams, maintaining a consistent level of quality across all products. + +### Enhanced clarity for all members + +Quality strategies channel the project's focus and streamlines decision-making, while **documenting** these ideas ensures clarity, facilitates communication, alignment, and solidifies collective understanding. diff --git a/docs/quality-strategy/01-intro-quality-strategy.md b/docs/quality-strategy/02-intro-quality-strategy.md similarity index 100% rename from docs/quality-strategy/01-intro-quality-strategy.md rename to docs/quality-strategy/02-intro-quality-strategy.md diff --git a/docs/quality-strategy/02-overview.md b/docs/quality-strategy/02-overview.md deleted file mode 100644 index 643bddb..0000000 --- a/docs/quality-strategy/02-overview.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,103 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Overview -metaTitle: Overview ---- - -## Introduction - -:::info - -The quality strategy presents **a path to building better software**, streamlining decision-making, optimizing resource use, fostering better teamwork, and ultimately **delivering more value to users**. -It brings a common language, visibility, clarity, and efficiency to IO’s software development process. - -::: - -**The Quality Strategy is about envisioning success and paving the way to achieve it.** - -Strategy illustration - -The quality strategy tool is designed to foster a structured and proactive approach to quality in software development projects. It ensures that every phase of the product's development adheres to high-quality standards, leaving no detail unconsidered, thereby improving both the efficiency and outcomes of all projects. - -The benefit of applying a quality strategy is that a team (or group of collaborating teams) creates easy and clear guidance for everybody involved, about which activities to apply to achieve built-in quality in fit-for-purpose systems. - -## Objectives - -### Clear vision & goals - -IO's quality strategy aims to achieve high-quality software through clear goals and a shared vision. In this field, **success** is about delivering real value to end-users and creating sustainable income streams. - -A quality strategy: - -- is crucial for defining a clear vision of success and detailing the steps to achieve it. -- involves both a forward and backward-looking perspective, allowing organizations to aim for optimal outcomes while also ensuring that all necessary checks are in place before releasing the new products or functionalities. -- encourages the team to employ a backward approach, ensuring that each task is performed intentionally and by design, rather than by chance, while always keeping the intended outcome in mind with every action. - -### A path to building better software - -IO’s dedicated to advancing software development practices by **incorporating and validating quality throughout the SDLC**. - -The quality strategy presents a **path to building better software**, streamlining decision-making, optimizing resource use, fostering better teamwork, and ultimately **delivering more value\*\*** to users. It brings a common language, visibility, clarity, and efficiency to the company’s software development process. - -The **objective** of the quality strategy is to ensure that software products are built with quality in mind and to guide teams and organizations through the process required to deliver high-quality products. - -** Delivering **real value\*\* refers to focusing on fewer things at a time, making small and frequent iterations, and getting quick feedback. It's about finishing what’s started instead of taking on too much all at once. This approach, driven by a clear strategy, ensures all energy goes into what really matters. By doing less but doing it well, it is possible to build better software that meets users' needs more effectively so the company stays efficient, adapts quickly, and ensures the work really meets the goals and needs it's supposed to, delivering real value every step of the way. - -#### Proactive quality integration and validation throughout the SDLC - -- The quality strategy proactively combines quality assurance and strategic thinking throughout the entire SDLC, ensuring that challenges are anticipated and overcome, leading to products that consistently meet business needs and user expectations. -- The quality strategy offers a clear overview of the team/project's approach to planning, assuring (building), and validating the quality of the software product throughout the SDLC. -- The quality strategy outlines the assumptions, potential risks and limitations, test approaches, owners of the different tasks, how and when all the tests are executed, how the test results and issues can be seen, and what (and how) tools are used. - -#### Increased efficiency & reduced waste - -- By establishing clear quality guidelines and processes, a quality strategy can streamline operations, reduce errors, and lower costs associated with rework and quality control issues. - -#### Consistent delivery of high-quality products - -- One of the primary **goals** of the quality strategy is to establish a **common, unified, structured** approach to software development that, like a recipe, consistently delivers high-quality products and services. -- This approach enables IO to consistently deliver robust and reliable software solutions that meet the evolving needs of users while enhancing overall efficiency and competitiveness within the organization. - -#### Continuous improvement - -- Quality strategies help organizations envision and implement mechanisms for continuous feedback and improvement, allowing teams to adapt to changing conditions and technologies while improving their processes. - -#### Company-wide quality mindset and culture - -- **Software quality must be visible** to promote a quality mindset that improves everyone's individual choices, ultimately minimizing complexity, risk, waste, and suffering. -- Making software quality visible and integral to the development process, we commit to a proactive approach to quality. This ensures that our technology not only supports but actively enhances the user experience. By integrating quality assurance practices throughout Input | Output's SDLC, we aim to build a reliable and secure platform that developers and users can trust. -- Quality strategies encourage every team member to take responsibility for quality, ensuring that the concept is considered at every stage of the SDLC. - -## Benefits - -### Faster time to market - -Quality strategies can help streamline the software development process, leading to faster delivery times. By catching defects early and ensuring that software is delivered with fewer defects, teams can release software products faster. - -
- Fast vs. cheap vs. good - -

Sources: https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html, https://mike-bland.com/2023/10/12/what-software-quality-is-and-why-it-matters.html.

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- -### Stronger reputation and brand image - -Delivering high-quality software builds trust and establishes a positive reputation for the organization. This can lead to increased customer confidence, improved brand image, and a competitive edge in the market. - -### Common language and enhanced collaboration - -Quality strategy would allow Input Output to align expectations and use a **common language**. When everyone speaks the same language, everyone understands each other better, eliminates ambiguity, and **improves collaboration**. A shared vocabulary will ensure that everyone’s on the same page, fostering stronger synergy across all levels and projects. - -The quality strategy fosters a culture where continuous feedback and open dialogue about quality processes are encouraged, enhancing collaboration and trust across teams. - -### Risk mitigation - -Quality strategies help in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks associated with product or service quality, providing visibility into identified risks and mitigations, ultimately reducing overall costs and increasing ownership and accountability among teams, preventing potential failures, customer dissatisfaction, or reputational damage. - -### Better control over outsourced development - -When working with external vendors or contractors, having consistent quality practices ensures that they adhere to the same standards as your internal teams, maintaining a consistent level of quality across all products. - -### Enhanced clarity for all members - -Quality strategies channel the project's focus and streamlines decision-making, while **documenting** these ideas ensures clarity, facilitates communication, alignment, and solidifies collective understanding. diff --git a/docs/quality-strategy/05-how-it-works.md b/docs/quality-strategy/05-how-it-works.md index b7e8a16..d6f9963 100644 --- a/docs/quality-strategy/05-how-it-works.md +++ b/docs/quality-strategy/05-how-it-works.md @@ -3,19 +3,26 @@ title: How it works metaTitle: How it works --- -This section provides guidance on how to develop and use quality strategies effectively, ensuring that the project teams are aligned and equipped to deliver high-quality products. +This section provides guidance on how to develop and use quality strategies effectively, ensuring that the project teams +are aligned and equipped to deliver high-quality products. -The quality strategy tool is designed to foster a structured and proactive approach to quality in software development projects. It ensures that every phase of your product development adheres to high-quality standards, leaving _no detail unconsidered_, thereby improving both the efficiency and outcomes of your projects +The quality strategy tool is designed to foster a structured and proactive approach to quality in software development projects. +It ensures that every phase of your product development adheres to high-quality standards, leaving _no detail unconsidered_, +thereby improving both the efficiency and outcomes of our projects. -### Step-by-step guide +## Step-by-step guide -#### 1. Familiarize yourself with the Quality Strategy tool +### 1. Familiarize yourself with the Quality Strategy tool -Explore the Quality Strategy info and templates, as understanding these resources will help you grasp the goals, principles, and essential components of this approach. This foundational knowledge is crucial for effectively implementing the strategy throughout the SDLC and maximizing its impact on final products. +Head over to the Resources section to get started. You’ll find a complete guide to the quality strategy, including its goals, +principles, and essential building blocks. This knowledge will empower you to effectively implement strategies throughout the +software development lifecycle (SDLC) and maximizing their impact. -#### 2. Develop a product-level quality strategy +### 2. Develop a product-level quality strategy -Once familiarized with the general approach, develop a specific **quality strategy for your software product**. +Define a clear quality strategy for your product or project to ensure consistent quality from start to finish. +This strategy, developed with the provided template, will guide your team in efficiently building and validating quality +throughout the entire SDLC, leading to better software and faster delivery. The purpose here is to capture and consolidate all the existing actions and processes your team or organization has in place to plan, assure (create & validate), and control (verify) the quality of the software products. @@ -24,7 +31,7 @@ The purpose here is to capture and consolidate all the existing actions and proc - **Review and understanding**: Ensure the quality strategy at the product level is well-understood and reviewed by all team members. This collaborative approach promotes a unified vision and facilitates consistent implementation of the quality strategy across different segments of the project. - **Collaboration and insights**: collaborate with other teams and projects to leverage knowledge and experience. Share insights and best practices to further improve your quality strategies. -#### 3. Extend quality strategy to individual features +### 3. Extend quality strategy to individual features Beyond a general product-level quality strategy, start developing targeted quality strategies for each important feature or new functionality. This approach allows for more specific quality control and rapid adjustment to meet distinct requirements or address challenges that arise during development. @@ -32,7 +39,7 @@ Beyond a general product-level quality strategy, start developing targeted quali - **Review and iterate**: ensure each strategy is thoroughly reviewed and agreed upon by all team members involved in the project. This collaborative review helps in identifying any areas overlooked earlier in the cycle. -#### 4. Develop system-level test strategies +### 4. Develop system-level test strategies Consider developing system-level test strategies to guide the work of test engineers during final product validation. @@ -40,7 +47,7 @@ Consider developing system-level test strategies to guide the work of test engin - **Integration and execution**: the system-level strategies should align with and support the individual feature-level strategies. They are typically executed in parallel to the feature development to ensure timely identification of issues. -#### 5. Address gaps and prioritize continuous improvement +### 5. Address gaps and prioritize continuous improvement With your project-level quality strategy in place, it's time to evaluate it and identify potential gaps. This is an opportunity to refine your quality strategy and enhance your software development process and the overall quality of your software products. @@ -48,33 +55,8 @@ With your project-level quality strategy in place, it's time to evaluate it and - **Adapt and refine**: establish a continuous improvement process that allows you to adapt and enhance your quality strategy and approach over time. Implement corrective actions, refine existing processes, and introduce new practices to address identified gaps. -## Roles and responsibilities +## Conclusion -:::info - -While quality is everyone's responsibility, it can paradoxically become no one's responsibility if it's not properly managed. This is where the concept of **accountability** becomes vital. - -::: - -The **project/team leadership** is accountable for ensuring that the software meets the necessary quality standards. They are also responsible for the quality strategy and signing off on the quality of the delivered product. **As leaders, it's IO's duty to craft clear strategies for the successful delivery of software functionalities**. Once that vision and roadmap are in place, the next step is to ensure teams are aligned and moving in the same direction. Let's collaborate and lead with purpose. - -Additional information is available on the FAQ page [here](../quality-strategy/resources/01-faqs.md#whos-responsible-for-creating-and-reviewing-the-quality-strategy) and [here](../quality-strategy/resources/01-faqs.md#why-shouldnt-software-testing-engineers-be-solely-responsible-for-creating-the-quality-strategies). - -## Shift left - -Most aspects of **quality** should be addressed multiple times within a software development life cycle, but in general, the earlier in the cycle that quality is planned and addressed, the less effort and cost are ultimately required to achieve the same level of quality. This principle, known as shifting left, is critically important regardless of the model. - -Shifting left minimizes any technical debt that would require remediating early quality flaws late in development or after the software is in production. Shifting left also results in software with stronger quality, security, and resiliency. - -## User-centric high-level software engineering strategy guidelines - -Define a project strategy designed to prioritize the end user at every stage of the development process. - -- Define the desired user experience -- Translate UX into functional requirements -- Design with technology in mind -- Implement and test iteratively -- Quality assurance and testing across the SDLC -- Launch, scale, expand -- Documentation and training -- Measurement of success +Implementing Quality Strategies using the provided templates ensures that your projects are set up for success from the start. +By methodically addressing each part of the strategy and ensuring thorough team involvement, you can significantly enhance the +quality and speed of your project deliveries. diff --git a/docs/quality-strategy/resources/03-system-level-test-strategy-template.md b/docs/quality-strategy/resources/03-system-level-test-strategy-template.md index 2798067..356f2b3 100644 --- a/docs/quality-strategy/resources/03-system-level-test-strategy-template.md +++ b/docs/quality-strategy/resources/03-system-level-test-strategy-template.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ relevant. ::: Creating a System-Level Test Strategy is a critical task for ensuring that test engineering teams across the -organisation have a consistent approach to testing that enhances transparency, efficiency, and effectiveness. +project have a consistent approach to testing that enhances transparency, efficiency, and effectiveness. This document should serve as a guide for planning, prioritising, executing testing tasks, reporting results, and integrating testing outcomes into the broader project lifecycle. diff --git a/docs/quality-strategy/resources/04-tips-and-tricks-for-creating-quality-strategies.md b/docs/quality-strategy/resources/04-tips-and-tricks-for-creating-quality-strategies.md index c2d1863..c39e267 100644 --- a/docs/quality-strategy/resources/04-tips-and-tricks-for-creating-quality-strategies.md +++ b/docs/quality-strategy/resources/04-tips-and-tricks-for-creating-quality-strategies.md @@ -1,15 +1,9 @@ # Tips & tricks for creating Quality Strategies -:::info - The objective of the **Quality Strategy** is to ensure that software products are built with quality in mind and to guide the teams and organisations through the validation processes required to deliver high-quality products. The Quality Strategy should offer a clear overview of the team/tribe's approach to planning, assuring (building), and validating the quality of the software product throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC). -::: - -The Quality Strategy does not prescribe how to implement any practice. **The focus is on the outcomes of the practices** rather than on the tools, techniques, and mechanisms to do so. This means that the Quality Strategy can be used by any team or project, regardless of size or sophistication. It can also be used for any type of software development, regardless of technology, platform, programming language, or operating environment. - ## Best practices for creating Quality Strategies - Use the provided templates, making sure to consider all the sections. This approach ensures that all essential aspects are considered, promoting a consistent approach to quality management across the organization. @@ -27,3 +21,16 @@ The Quality Strategy does not prescribe how to implement any practice. **The foc - **Write for others to understand**: Remember that the Quality Strategy is intended for all stakeholders to understand, not just yourself or your team. - **If it isn’t important, don’t put it in the strategy**. Not a single word in the strategy should garner a “don’t care” reaction from a potential stakeholder. - **Guide an engineer’s thinking**. A good strategy helps anybody think through functionality and quality needs and logically leads from higher-level concepts to lower-level details that can be directly implemented. + +## User-Centric High-Level Software Engineering Strategy Guidelines + +Define strategies designed to prioritise the end-user at every stage of the development lifecycle: + +- Define the desired user experience +- Translate UX into functional requirements +- Design with technology in mind +- Implement and test iteratively +- Quality assurance and testing across the SDLC +- Launch, scale, expand +- Documentation and training +- Measurement of success diff --git a/src/pages/index.tsx b/src/pages/index.tsx index b4d9ef4..2c9f5a7 100644 --- a/src/pages/index.tsx +++ b/src/pages/index.tsx @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ const features = [ description: 'A comprehensive tool that guides our projects through the process of envisioning and achieving success.', image: './img/qs-icon.png', - href: 'docs/quality-strategy/understanding-quality-strategy', + href: 'docs/quality-strategy/overview', }, { title: 'Knowledge Hub', From 10509567d3a3ee8c88ae6fb6e1d01d8c9d784255 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dorin solomon Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:43:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] streamlined the quality strategy faq section --- docs/quality-strategy/resources/01-faqs.md | 34 ++-------------------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/quality-strategy/resources/01-faqs.md b/docs/quality-strategy/resources/01-faqs.md index 0b6370e..e138ee5 100644 --- a/docs/quality-strategy/resources/01-faqs.md +++ b/docs/quality-strategy/resources/01-faqs.md @@ -79,32 +79,6 @@ The quality strategy should be reviewed by the entire team, including engineers, The goal is for the team to use a common language and have a shared understanding of the current status, risks, and main concerns, as well as quality criteria, requirements, regulations, and standards to meet, in order to align the team on the quality measures required at each step in the development cycle. -## What is the difference between quality assurance and quality control? - -Quality assurance: - -- Ensures that the processes and procedures are in place to achieve quality -- Proactive -- Process -- Prevention -- The team including the stakeholders -- Throughout the process - -Quality control: - -- Makes sure that the product meets the requirements and specs before it is released -- Reactive -- Product -- Validation -- Test engineers, developers, benchmark, community -- At the testing stage or along with the development process - -:::info - -Quality assurance (the process) focuses on preventing defects while quality control (the process) focuses on identifying and fixing the defects - -::: - ## How much testing is enough to qualify for a software release? 'Enough' testing for a software release is achieved when: @@ -170,11 +144,11 @@ The procedure typically includes steps such as data backup and recovery, system ### A software quality strategy is too time-consuming -While creating a software quality strategy does require some effort, it actually saves time in the long run by helping to prevent issues and streamline the development process. +While creating a software quality strategy does require some effort, it actually saves time and resources by preventing issues, optimizing development, and accelerating delivery. -By taking the time to plan for quality, organizations can avoid costly mistakes and rework later in the development process. Planning can save significant time and resources in the long run. Additionally, implementing a quality strategy can help to streamline the development process by identifying areas of inefficiency and opportunities for improvement. This can ultimately save time and improve the speed of delivery. +By taking the time upfront to plan for quality, organizations can avoid costly mistakes and rework later on in the development process. This can save significant time and resources in the long run. -It is also important to note that not having a software quality strategy can be even more time-consuming, as it can lead to a higher number of bugs, longer testing cycles, and delays in release. By having a quality strategy in place, projects can proactively address potential issues and ensure that software is delivered on time and with the desired level of quality. +Moreover, it is important to note that not having a software quality strategy can be even more time-consuming, as it can lead to a higher number of defects, longer testing cycles, and delays in release. By having a quality strategy in place, teams and projects can proactively address potential issues and ensure that software is delivered on time and with the desired level of quality. ### A software quality strategy is too expensive @@ -199,8 +173,6 @@ Finally, many aspects of a quality strategy, such as testing and continuous inte The quality strategy serves as a guiding framework for the team/project, highlighting the essential actions required to build top-notch products. However, it doesn't prescribe specific methods or processes. Instead, it empowers the team with the autonomy and creative freedom to determine the best approach and techniques to achieve the desired quality outcomes. This balance ensures that while quality remains a core focus, innovation and adaptability are not compromised. -Rulebooks and frameworks - ### A software quality strategy is only necessary for large organizations or complex software projects Even small organizations and simpler software projects can benefit from a software quality strategy. A strategy can help to ensure that software is delivered on time, within budget, and with the desired level of quality. It can also help identify and mitigate risks before they become major issues.