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PROJECT MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGY

Project management, according to the American Society for Quality (ASQ), is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to meet the requirements of a project. The following chapters apply the Project Quality Management practices and methods to software testing by describing basic test management processes and organizational approaches that achieve project quality.

The objectives of this section are to:

1. ■ Define the Project Framework.

2. ■ Develop the dependencies between product quality and project quality.

3. ■ Characterize the phases of the Project Framework.

4. ■ Describe the important relationship between project scope and product quality.

5. ■ Define the roles of the project manager and test manager in quality management.

6. ■ Describe the steps of the quality planning process that support Project Quality Management.

7. ■ Emphasize the factors that influence project estimation.

8. ■ Illustrate the defect management activities that support Quality Control.

9. ■ Demonstrate how defect-tracking techniques influence project quality.

10. ■ Present the benefits of integrating test and development methodologies into a unified set of processes.

11. ■ Reveal the steps to build an integrated methodology.

12. ■ Explain why organizational structures influence how project managers and test managers accomplish their tasks.

13. ■ Establish the approaches to organizational challenges.

14. ■ Describe alternative quality metrics that measure project progress and compliance to requirements.