There was a great group at the SAO QA SIG yesterday. Thanks to the organizers , sponsors and WebTrends for the space. There was a goodly number of people from the QA profession (not surprisingly), but yet a surprisingly large number of non-QA focused people. The majority were involved in some kind of...

In many organization I've encountered there is this artificial distinction between the new development group and the maintenance programming group. Why on God's green earth would you want to do such a thing? Every time the topic comes up I point out that there is only "maintenance" since once you have...

Clark Ching had a brief post relating the requirements churn rate (25%) to the average cost of change (50x) yielding a 13.5x increase in the time required to complete all requirement in a project assuming the original estimate didn't take changes into account (and how many do). In another post Clark...

Brian Marick posted here and here about burnbown chart styles and I thought I'd chime in with my variation. I use a slight modification of Kelly's burndown. I always put the remaining work on top of the bar and use real dates across the bottom. Additionally you can add a third category called tested...