Expectation from qms lecture 5
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The document outlines expectations for what a Quality Management System (QMS) should provide to various roles involved in a software project. It is expected that a QMS will provide standards and procedures to support project managers in risk management, reporting, and record keeping. It should also provide standards for requirements specification, coding, testing, system design, and reporting progress to customers. The QMS aims to ensure uniform processes, documentation of activities, and allocation of appropriate staff across all functions of a software project.
Expectation from qms lecture 5
- 1. Expectation from QMS By Fazal Wahab
- 2. The Project Manager • QMS is expected to support the following functions of a project manager: – QMS should provide facilities whereby a project manager can consider the vast majority of possible risk, which could affect a project. – QMS should specify standards, which will enable staff to report on their activities in a uniform way. – QMS should lay down standards and procedures, which ensure that cost and expenditure records from earlier projects are kept in a easily accessible form.
- 3. The Project Manager QMS should provide a way of collecting and analyzing defect statistics; QMS should contain a standard for a project plan which gives details about the capabilities of the staff who are to carry out the project task such as system testing.
- 4. Programmer/Developer QMS should set coding standards QMS should provide directions to the developer to store test data and test outcomes in files. QMS should guide the developers and the configuration managers towards organizing the entire software project repository
- 5. System Designer QMS should provide a standard, which describes how the process architecture and data architecture are to be written. QMS should specify standards, which lead to a system that should be easily maintainable. It should provide standards, which lead to a good requirements specification.
- 6. Analyst QMS should provide a standard for the requirements specification. It should provide a number of checklists It should provide a description of the process involved when an analyst liaisons with a customer.
- 7. Senior Management QMS should provide senior managers with reports of achievements against targets for each of their projects; It should provide direction on the setting up of audit trail documentation. It should provide facilities whereby reports on defects discovered during development are issued regularly.
- 8. Staffing Department • QMS should provide standards for a project plan where the skill level of the staff on the project is properly specified. It helps the HR department to allocate the right people to the project. • QMS should provide a standard format for reports as well as for the resume. – To produce a written report on the effectiveness of the staff on the project.
- 9. Customer QMS provide directives which specify how progress meeting are to be organized. Who should be invited from the developer’s staff? When the meeting should be scheduled? What physical arrangements, such as the booking of a room should be made? How issues arising from a progress meeting are to be resolved.
- 10. The Testers QMS should ensure that procedures and associated checklists are in place to enable test data and test outcomes to be stored in a project repository. QMS should ensure that procedures exists which help in arrangement of resources requirement for tests.