Besides the small introduction, subscribers and consulting clients within this management domain have access to:
Evaluate and understand your current SQA capabilities, as well as the degree to which metric objectives are being met.
Identify and define SQA processes and metrics needed to meet quality objectives set by development teams and the business.
Build your SQA plan and optimization roadmap.
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To help you assess and understand your current SQA capabilities as well as the degree to which metric objectives are being met.
An analysis of current SQA practices to provide insight into potential inefficiencies, opportunities, and to provide the business with sufficient rationale for improving current quality assurance initiatives.
1.1 Conduct a high-level assessment of where to focus your current state analysis.
1.2 Document your high-level development process.
1.3 Create a RACI chart to understand roles and responsibilities.
1.4 Perform a SIPOC-MC analysis for problem areas identified in your SDLC.
1.5 Identify the individual control points involved with passing software artifacts through SDLC stages being assessed.
1.6 Identify problem areas within your SDLC as they relate to SQA.
Understanding of current overall development process and where it is most weak in the context of quality assurance
Understanding of assigned roles and responsibilities across development teams, including individuals who are involved with making quality-related decisions for artifact hand-off
Identification of problem areas within SQA process for further analysis
To help you identify and define SQA processes and metrics needed to meet quality objectives set out by development teams and the business.
A revised list of key SQA tasks along with metrics and associated tolerance limits used universally for all development projects.
2.1 Establish SQA metrics and tolerance limits across your SDLC.
2.2 Determine your target state for SQA processes within the define/design stage of the SDLC.
2.3 Determine your target state for SQA processes within the development stage of the SDLC.
2.4 Determine your target state for SQA processes within the testing stage of the SDLC.
2.5 Determine your target state for SQA processes within the deploy/release stage of the SDLC.
Identification of the appropriate metrics and their associated tolerance limits to provide insights into meeting quality goals and objectives during process execution
Identification of target state SQA processes that are required for ensuring quality across all development projects
Based on discovered inefficiencies, define optimization initiatives required to improve your SQA practice.
Optimization initiatives and associated tasks required to address gaps and improve SQA capabilities.
3.1 Determine optimization initiatives for improving your SQA process.
3.2 Gain the full scope of effort required to implement your SQA optimization initiatives.
3.3 Identify the enablers and blockers of your SQA optimization.
3.4 Define your SQA optimization roadmap.
Prioritized list of optimization initiatives for SQA
Assessment of level of effort for each SQA optimization initiative
Identification of enablers and blockers for optimization initiatives
Identification of roadmap timeline for implementing optimization initiatives