So you read my Edible versions post and want to get the good stuff on how to make it happen in your organization. Well, to be honest, its not that difficult once all the parties sit together, talk about their expectations and design the protocols between the groups. See my earlier post for some general pointers.Having said that - Maybe I CAN provide some tips that I saw working in the past:Ensure all content in a delivery is tracked as [...]
All you QA people out there -How often does your QA group "choke" on versions delivered by the development group?Are you used to "unedible" versions which just don't taste right?How about versions which simply come as a blackbox where you have no idea what changed, therefore no idea what to do with the version, what to expect of it?Now all of you DEV people - think about the times where you installed 3rd party products/updates which caused you the same [...]
I'm going to dedicate a couple of posts to the relationships between QA and Development (DEV) organizations.Anyone who's ever been in either of those organizations knows that sometimes there seems to be a conflict of interest between QA and DEV, which can lead to friction between the groups and the people. Obviously when both organizations are running under the same roof, there must be some joint interest/goal, but the challenge is to identify the expectations of each group in order [...]