Quality


Below you’ll find the articles at EPM from the quality category. Whatever type of organization you work for you need to care about quality.

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Product Breakdown Structure (PBS)

A Product Breakdown Structure helps us to answer the question, “what are we trying to build?”. They may look identical to a Work Breakdown Structure, but rather than focusing on activities, they focus on what is the product itself.…

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Project Assurance | What is Project Assurance?

When you think about a project you have been involved in which failed, the likelihood is that there wasn’t one single catastrophic event that caused the project to fail, and that the project silently and slowly slid towards failure over time. Project

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The Value of Software Architecture

An EPM reader from the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute recently emailed me to tell me about a new paper from the SEI. The paper concerns software architecture, and examines the use of software architecture to achieve three goals:

  1. Better

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Software Development Life Cycles

In this article we’re going to provide a very basic introduction to some of the more common Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC) in existence. A SDLC describes a process for making or altering software. Because there are many approaches to

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