Quality is crucial for the success of any project and based on my experience quality is part of each member of the project. I mean, is part of the personal and professional life. Quality must no be negotiated.
In any organization in order to deliver project as much as they can, sacrifice quality, so they must understand that if each member has quality all the products delivered will have quality too.
How you can demonstrate that you can reduce project delivery times without sacrificing quality?
If you have any idea, please share with the members.
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arlene trimbleAssistant IT Director| Local GovernmentAlamo, Ca, United States
You can do it in several ways or a combination of several ways based from my experience:
a. decompose projects into deliverable chunks so you can deliver high quality projects iteratively - easier to plan, test, and implement.
b. aim for the MVP - minimum viable product.
c. avoid goldplating. stick to the prioritized backlog by business owner so you can focus on the mandatory requirements and quality assurance/c control.
d. If task allows it, perform tasks concurrently.
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saurabh mahajanPMP, ITIL, PRINCE2| vodafonePune, Maharashtra, India
Projects can be delayed because of rework, which comes from improper testing and low quality work. SO if at first place rework can be avoided by having proper test plans and quality work (code, documentation,implementation,etc) delivery time can be reduced without sacrificing quality Saving Changes...
Hope this helps. Will share more information when I will come across.
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Joanna NewmanHead of Innovation and Transformation , Telecoms| VodafoneCholderton, United Kingdom
Build quality into the project at every step. Good requirements and solid MVP make it easier to reach
Have good achievable goals for your team - its a marathon not a sprint
And run lessons learned to capture good ideas and apply them everywhere Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
Quality is a subject matter. So, first of all, you have to define quality for your specific initiative. Second, be careful do not confuse quality with grade. Third, quality and grade is a matter to be defined at strategic level and you have to be aligned with that. Saving Changes...
Dominic LawProduct Manager| PCCW GlobalHappy Valley, Hong Kong
For a start, time and quality do not often compensate each other. The project can go faster by, for example, employing more resources and you can even employ higher competent resources to improve quality, using machines or tools (again you can use higher quality tools to improve output quality), rearranging resources to speed up the jobs at critical paths, etc. etc.
There should also be proper risk management so you should have planned for any events that could cause delay, and have some risk budget to catch up.
And it is also project manager's job how to balance time, quality and budget to achieve the project target! Saving Changes...
Thejassu RaghavanEngagement Manager in Agile environment| WinWire Technologies LtdBangalore, India
By reducing from the agreed level of quality, you will never be able to deliver faster. In reality project will be delayed because of quality issues.
The possible ways to reduce delivery timelines are
- If budget permits add extra resources.See if you can complete tasks in parallel
- Do an analysis of the process and see if there is any unnecessary delay or wastage
- Improved quality checks and QA can reduce the rework, which will improve the timelines. Saving Changes...
