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Quality Assurance and Testing: A Quick Guide

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The Difference Between Quality Assurance and Quality Control. The difference between quality assurance and quality control is subtle but significant, although both terms are often used interchangeably to describe the quality management of the project’s product or service. The Aerospace Industry. Principles of Quality Assurance.

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Project Management Guidelines (Part 1) - What We Can Learn From Project Failures

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A good project manager knows that some developments are out of their control. The only way to relieve that stress is to remain calm about the situation and take action to keep the situation under control. " Larry Constantine is a software engineer and designer who pioneered the Structured Design approach to software development.

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Software Estimating Resources

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Bool, CrossLink: The Aerospace Corporation, Winter, 2000/2001, pp. Control Variates for Stochastic Network Simulation,” T. Effort Estimation of Use Cases for Incremental Large-Scale Software Development,” Pareastoo Mohagheghi, Bente Anda, and Reidat Conradi, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ‒ Steve McConnell. Software quality measurement,” Magne Jørgensen, Advances in Engineering Software 30 (1999) 907–912.

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Risk Management Resources

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Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

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Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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Managing in Presence of Uncertainty

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Are the upper and lower control limits of each measure inside the planned acceptable performance range at any specific point in time on the path to Done? Why are the attributes not staying inside the Upper and Lower control limits that were planned for those parameters to be successful? This is called back to green where we work.

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