Software Quality Assurance Podcast

I took a little different twist this week on the Business901 podcast and interviewed Murali Chemuturi, an information technology and software development subject matter expert, hands-on programmer, author, consultant and trainer. This podcast centered on Software Quality Assurance and what Murali considers best practice. I found his position quite different than the Agile and Kanban Read More …

Quality Conversations…The Global Voice of Quality

I am the guest today on Quality Conversations hosted by Steve Wilson where we will discuss Applying Lean or Six Sigma to Marketing. the call-in number is (646) 200-3898. Quality Conversations, serves as a platform for communicating the best and brightest strategies, methods and tools for all those interested in improving quality and business process Read More …

Making Quality pay-off BIG!

Do you want to inch up the charts or do you want to leap? I think that is the greatest reason Lean-style thinking has develop Kaizan events. Focus on results and “LET’S GITTER DONE!” However, if you want to get something accomlished having a trained practicioner or Black Belt may prove very beneficial to you. Read More …

Cost of Quality

I was reading a past Ten Step Project Management Newsletter about the cost of quality and thought it was a great addition to this week’s posts. Building quality steps in the workplan adds a certain amount of effort and cost to the project. However, these incremental costs will be rewarded with increased benefits and reduced Read More …

Quality Improvement – it needs to be easier than tying a knot!

Forget Six Sigma, let’s get some results. Think about the 80/20 rule. If you are going to get 80% of your results from 20% of the problem than narrow even further to 95/5 if you can. So when you institute a quality program focus on small areas that get big results. Why waste your efforts Read More …