Project Coaching

You have an important project to deliver but are unsure about the final result?

Qualibre Technologies can help you to make a better assessment of your project at any time or in any development phase of your software development life cycle. 

Our project coaching services include:

• Project Assessment

  The recipe for a successful project is simple : vision, courage, leadership, knowledge and confidence in your resources - human, financial and material.  However, due to the ever-increasing complexity of today’s software development, an organization can find itself in a bind because of its lack of time and energy to maintain or improve a product lifecycle’s health.  Project assessment is a key activity that allows organizations to know, at any given time, the state of a project in accordance with its business goals.

   

• Test Plan and Strategy

  Testing a whole system can sometimes be seen as an expensive activity.  In average, all depending on the complexity and the criticality of the application, more than half of the development costs can be attributed to tests.  A thorough, mature and systematic planning is not only critical for controlling testing costs, but can also determine the success or failure of your project.  A test plan drives the organization into adopting industry standards and respecting set practices during test phases.  A test strategy defines the approach, as well as the techniques to adopt and use in order to obtain a satisfying quality evaluation.  In other words, the test plan defines the « what » and the « when », whereas the strategy defines the « how ».  The combination of both documents gives us a total confidence that the tests are not only complete, but also well planned and well done.

   

• Software Inspections

  The goal of software inspections is to uncover errors that may exist at any given stage of the development life cycle.  The inspections consist of a series of formal, disciplined and low-cost reviews that allow you to maximize your performance, while minimizing the costs related to rework.  In fact, it has been shown that the correction of a defect at the testing level is very difficult and expensive. If a bug is found by the customer, the impact and costs can surge exponentially.  Formal software inspections are so effective that they alone account for 80% to 95% of defects removal, compared to a mere 30% using standard testing techniques.

   

• Progress Measurement

  Whether you are planning an annual family gathering, a friend’s wedding or building a brand new home, it is important to keep track of the overall project’s progress, in order to make sure that your objectives are being met successfully.  The same principle can be applied toward software development.  In fact, regardless of the development process being used, having the right tools and qualified people, whose mindsets are focused toward software quality and customer satisfaction, is a necessity to carefully track your project’s progress.  Remember that you can not manage, nor improve what you can not measure.

   

• Test Automation

  Every time you change a portion of your code, you risk the effect of introducing involuntary a new bug in the system.  This problem is shared within the software industry.  In fact, it is not rare for a software company to provide a patch for their latest product, because something in the system broke due to a code change.  Executing regression tests will insure that your development team didn’t accidentally break the logic behind the code.  However, automating your test process in a blindly manner can highly increase the complexity and the costs associated in testing the entire application by your testing team.  On the other hand, test automation can be very useful to an organization when done by the right people and the appropriate development environment.