CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering. Volume 24, Number 4, July/August 2011

Abstract

Management practices leading to the delivery of quality products are affected first and foremost by the responsibilities associated with the roles of the managers in an organization. By this I mean those responsibilities should be pushed further down into the organization to have an affect on the plans and the quality of the products delivered. Quality means different things to various individuals. Fundamentally, quality is about delivering products to the customer that meet their functional needs. Beneath that, the product delivered must be maintainable, reliable, and useable. To achieve these quality requirements, projects must manage the mistakes made while the product is developed. When quality is managed poorly--or not at all--the results include schedules that blow up and related major cost overruns for funding used to pay for additional time spent working and reworking the product.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA546455

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  • Brandon Ellis

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  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

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  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Communication Systems
  • Databases
  • Debugging
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Model Based Systems Engineering
  • Network Science
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • Software Testing
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States

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