Driving innovation can reduce costs for companies, institutions, military programs, and successful businesses. Quality is key to successful innovation. Delivery of complex products must have high quality to reduce customer problems and defects. This book explains how to integrate Quality Assurance processes to produce compliant product management and gap analysis. It shows how Quality Assurance provides a common operating framework in which best practices, improvements, and cost avoidance activities can be shared.
Effective Processes for Quality Assurance emphasizes improving process execution and reducing operational costs. It also focuses on how Quality Assurance personnel must support companies, institutions, military programs, and successful businesses by encouraging a cooperative, proactive approach and ensure compliance through management and team member participation.
Lean and Agile can provide a competitive advantage, and this practical reference explains how to implement these two principles to deliver products that have fewer defects. It also explains:
Quality Assurance methods
Measuring benefits of Quality Assurance process improvement
Quality Assurance performance and improvement
Risk management
Quality Assurance improvement with metrics
Effective processes for Quality Assurance
Quantitative process performance and commitments
Quality Assurance plans
Quality Assurance for customers and suppliers
Supporting software configuration
Effective Processes for Quality Assurance covers the critical issues for implementing Quality Assurance processes that can deliver high-quality products successfully.
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Für Beruf und Forschung
Professional Practice & Development
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20 s/w Abbildungen
20 Illustrations, black and white
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 8 mm
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978-1-032-47565-3 (9781032475653)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Boyd L. Summers is a retired Software Engineer for The Boeing Company and is a Software Technology Consultant for BL Summers Consulting LLC. Based in in Florence, Arizona, Summers is an author of two software technology books titled Software Engineering Reviews and Audits and Effective Methods for Software and Systems Integration. He writes articles for many software engineering journals and magazines. Topics include system design, software requirements, software design, software testing and evaluation, configuration management, Quality Assurance, process and product evaluations and the applied processes in Agile, Lean, and Six Sigma. He is a speaker and a board member of numerous software and quality control conferences around the world.
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Summary
Author
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Quality Assurance Methods
Chapter 3 Measure Benefits of Quality Assurance Process Improvement
Chapter 4 Quality Assurance Performance and Improvement
Chapter 5 Answer Questions from Management and Employees
Chapter 6 Manage Risk Management
Chapter 7 Quality Assurance Improvement with Metrics
Chapter 8 Quality Assurance Framework
Chapter 9 Quality Assurance Process Improvement
Chapter 10 Effective Processes for Quality Assurance
Chapter 11 Quantitative Process Performance and Commitments
Chapter 12 Understanding the Quality Assurance Direction
Chapter 13 Military Aerospace and Defense
Chapter 14 Quality Assurance Plans
Chapter 15 Quality Assurance for Customers and Suppliers
Chapter 16 Supporting Software Configuration Management
Appendix A
Index
