People & Teams

Why is scheduling an art? If it were a science, every project would be delivered on time. Overruns have become so common that people have lost faith in schedules and view them as very malleable. In this article, Nick Jenkins explains how to prevent this in your project.

Have you ever read the latest memo from top management and wondered, "What are they thinking? This will never work!" Sometimes we have information that management doesn't have. How we put that information in front of management can determine whether they hear us or not. Esther Derby gives some advice on communicating up the chain.

When preparing for a testing news meeting, sometimes it's hard to fill your report with the latest accurate information. It's sometimes also hard to prioritize elements in your presentation. Finding a happy medium between delivering accuracy and up-to-the-minute details, and prioritizing your presentation, can be a tough balancing act. To be successful you'll need to be well informed about the most important issues and in touch with the needs of your audience.

The problems due to unstructured, decentralized test management can be solved by reengineering the test management process. A testing project starts by building a test plan and proceeds to creating test cases, implementing test scripts, executing tests, and evaluating and reporting on results. This article explains the goals of reengineering test management and how to achieve them.