Managing projects.

Managing scope and quality is difficult

It is always a challenge for project managers to ensure that the deliverables, which are within the project scope, are of sufficient quality. In doing so, the deliverables must be delivered within the available project budget and on time.
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The four attributes, scope, quality, cost and time, are communicating vessels. An unforeseen deviation from the scope and/or the agreed level of quality, directly affects cost and/or time. Saving money quickly leads to lower quality and/or longer lead time.
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As a project manager, you naturally want to prevent the scope from being expanded unnoticed, without explicitly defining a new scope (a 'scope creep'). As a result, money and time are invested in things that are not on the schedule.

There can be many causes for a 'scope creep'. Consider unclear or unrealistic project objectives, poor communication or too many stakeholders. However, it is impossible to keep a grip on the scope and quality if these are not recorded and kept up to date.

When the testing activities within your project are carried out in Testersuite, as a project manager you have continuous visibility of the current scope and quality of the IT system to be delivered. In addition, you can also register and monitor the other project deliverables in Testersuite . We are happy to show you how this works in practice!

Save time and money with an efficient testing process

In IT projects, too little importance is often placed on a sound testing approach and a streamlined testing process. Everyone tests in their own way, communication between team members is poor, and too much time is spent testing unimportant components.

By properly structuring the testing process, you ensure that errors are detected at an early stage. This leads to lower rework costs because the sooner you identify and resolve issues, the less impact they have on your project. It prevents small problems from escalating into major obstacles.

Risk-based testing is a smart approach to testing more efficiently. By focusing on the most critical parts of a system, you minimize risk and prevent serious problems from coming to light too late in the project. It also helps you allocate time and resources more effectively.

With Testersuite , you can quickly set up a best-practice-based testing process for your project. This ensures consistent, risk-based testing and helps detect errors early on. Workflows streamline the testing process, and test results are centrally recorded.

Curious about how you can apply this to your projects? We’d love to help you figure it out!

Easily involve the management and user organization in your project

Administrators, key users, and end users are essential to the successful execution of IT projects. They provide input for defining requirements and contribute ideas regarding the system’s design. In addition, they play a key role in preparing and conducting tests and in accepting project deliverables.

The design decisions that are made ultimately lead to a test basis. This test basis is necessary to design and ultimately execute the correct tests. During the execution of the tests, the results must be recorded so that test progress and test coverage can be monitored.

It seems logical to use Excel for performing test activities. After all, it’s a tool that everyone knows and can use. Moreover, it seems like a nice way to save on licensing costs for a testing tool, and there’s no need to train users to work with one. However, nothing could be further from the truth! This is a classic case of“penny wise, pound foolish.” See also our blog about testing with Excel.

Using a good test management tool in your project results in significant savings. This is because work is performed much more efficiently and errors are detected at an earlier stage. In addition, it improves the quality of the project deliverables, and as a project manager, you have visibility into the current test progress and coverage.

When using Testersuite, there’s no need to train administrators and users on how to use the test tool. Testersuite is very simple and intuitive to use—a brief tutorial is all that’s needed. It’s very easy to get your administrative and user teams up and running with Testersuite and to involve them in your project. We’d love to show you just how user-friendly Testersuite is!

Smooth delivery to client and management

One of the challenges for project managers is to deliver the project to the satisfaction of the client and the management organization. How do you demonstrate that the project objectives have been met, and how do you ensure that the delivered system can be properly managed? In other words, the deliverables (scope) with the desired quality, have been realized within time and budget.

A mature testing process within your project plays a very large role in the successful execution and delivery of your project. A test management tool such as Testersuite is indispensable for this. In the first place it leads to savings in time and money. In addition, the acceptance of the project deliverables is centrally recorded. So you have proof of acceptance by the management and user organization without extra effort.

The management organization expects the project to deliver good regression tests. When using Testersuite, it is possible to write away the tests performed in the project to a central regression test set. The management organization can make use of these regression tests when testing future changes and releases. So delivering the regression tests to management does not cost the project any extra time.

Are you curious what advantages this can mean for your projects? We would love to talk to you further about this topic!