MindTree Test Consulting Group maximizes the value that technology provides to business owners by helping technology leaders effectively and efficiently align with business goals and objectives. Organizations that implement standards, guidelines, and methodology along with a process improvement plans achieve a higher level of success in support of mission critical applications, maintaining/lowering costs and increasing productivity.
One of the biggest reasons for failures in software testing is lack of attention to the business goals/objectives. By clearly defining success, you know what matters; you understand the criteria that tell when you are done. Decreased customer satisfaction combined with frequent poor customer experience will have a negative impact to your bottom line. Organizations that can align around business goals and objectives can clearly define the quality dimensions and to what level will be required to gain certification.
There are many perspectives on quality and their associated measurements, but fundamentally, it’s the need to articulate the dimensions of quality as they relate to business goals/objectives and their associated value, cost & risk (doing & not doing) in achieving them. General understanding of quality dimensions is defined by terms, such as reliability, maintainability, scalability, usability, and conformability. These dimensions will require a commensurate level of investment (testing costs) to satisfy that business goal/objective. As we make the trade-offs (Time, Cost, Scope) to deliver that stated satisfaction level, one can more accurately identify risks if your quality dimensions are already known. The level to which we validate/test (for quality dimensions) is automatically tied to business importance of that goal and subsequent results.
Your business case should prove the investment in testing has value and importance. Business goals therefore define the thresholds and associated importance. Value, in most cases, turns to return on investment calculations to determine and validate when the benefits will be realized. Investment has value and associated costs, costs are a major factor in ROI calculation, but it’s more than cost alone. ROI should be viewed as a function of these attributes - cost, quality, and time. These attributes are tied in many ways to importance and need to be weighted. A team that has embraced measurements and ROI can benefit from a balanced scorecard, simultaneously minimizing costs, mitigating risks and a quicker time to market.
Measurement determines whether the quality of the (application, product, etc…) is improving or declining; based in a comparison from previous results of kind.
Key Performance Indicators are quantifiable defined measurements that reflect the critical success factors of an organization. Whatever Key Performance Indicators are selected, they must reflect the organization's goals, align to its success and they must be quantifiable (measurable).
MindTree Test Consulting Group assesses the current state of Quality Management, Governance, Process and Tools of product/application delivery across people, process and technology. We leverage good practices and available tools to design workable improvement plans to meet your business objectives. We can leverage your existing delivery life cycle and methodologies and work a sensible cost-effective improvement plan or provide complete integrated test solution recommendations. Adhering to good practices consistently throughout the product delivery lifecycle (inception through sunset) helps to build a quality minded culture in your organization.
We’ll discuss what challenges you are facing to determine what offerings would be needed. Our highly qualified test professionals have a rich experience and sound understanding of the process improvements, test automation and test management tools. We assemble our tactical delivery around business criticality and look to establish incremental improvement plans.
We are business minded testing and quality assurance professionals focused on delivering adaptable, actionable solutions guided by business goals, risks and results. We look to achieve consistent execution to achieve a predictable level of quality that is commensurate with the investment. We strive to provide relevant, comprehensive, attainable and actionable plans designed to improve efficiency and productivity.
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