Suggestions for Improving Project Quality for IT Projects
Q: Initial Post: Describe three suggestions for improving project quality for IT-projects (or other types of projects if you are not in the IT industry) that were not made in Chapter 8 of the Schwalbe text ?
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It is an tough Question to answer, Because The Book covers pretty good suggestions on how to improve information Technology Project Quality. Probably I'm going to offer some reflections that I had on project quality from the project that I am Currently working at corning.
1. Constant and Meaningful Communication with Stakeholders: Many IT Projects are suffering immensely because of some Stakeholders just aren't communicate with often enough and some other stakeholders that we hold meeting that are largely not meaningful. if both of this get fix, Quality of the project would be improved lot better. My Suggestion is that everyone in the project team should understand the level of quality expected by the project stakeholders and evaluate the processes and phases better and comprehend accordingly to the level of commitment and effort required. “Customer quality expectations and acceptance criteria specify that quality is determined by the customer, not by the project manager.” (Cusolito, n.d.). So, Delivering an project that satisfies the customer expected quality can be expound as not but success.
2. Standard procedure document & Version Control: Many of the IT Project facing issues in maintaining the Quality of the Standard Operational Procedural Document. As we know in IT Companies, Employees will frequently change the job, which leads project management team facing hard time in Tracking the changes to the important Procedural documents(Ex: Disaster recovery plan). So maintaining quality of this documents is more important for Project Quality. My Suggestion is that all this kind documents should have an approval board for approving the changes in the document, Maintaining the Version Track record - so that everyone in project will know who made the
Ans:
It is an tough Question to answer, Because The Book covers pretty good suggestions on how to improve information Technology Project Quality. Probably I'm going to offer some reflections that I had on project quality from the project that I am Currently working at corning.
1. Constant and Meaningful Communication with Stakeholders: Many IT Projects are suffering immensely because of some Stakeholders just aren't communicate with often enough and some other stakeholders that we hold meeting that are largely not meaningful. if both of this get fix, Quality of the project would be improved lot better. My Suggestion is that everyone in the project team should understand the level of quality expected by the project stakeholders and evaluate the processes and phases better and comprehend accordingly to the level of commitment and effort required. “Customer quality expectations and acceptance criteria specify that quality is determined by the customer, not by the project manager.” (Cusolito, n.d.). So, Delivering an project that satisfies the customer expected quality can be expound as not but success.
2. Standard procedure document & Version Control: Many of the IT Project facing issues in maintaining the Quality of the Standard Operational Procedural Document. As we know in IT Companies, Employees will frequently change the job, which leads project management team facing hard time in Tracking the changes to the important Procedural documents(Ex: Disaster recovery plan). So maintaining quality of this documents is more important for Project Quality. My Suggestion is that all this kind documents should have an approval board for approving the changes in the document, Maintaining the Version Track record - so that everyone in project will know who made the