Fwd: [CMMi Process Improvement] PPQA and Agile

[Hillel Glazer]

Indeed, Leo, if the organization is truly implementing Scrum, then the opportunities for PPQA are very rich.

You have the opportunity to perform PPQA by observing release planning, sprint planning, and every daily meeting. 
You have the opportunity to perform PPQA with each sprint's retrospective.
You have the opportunity to perform PPQA at the end of each project or release.
You can also inspect the product backlog and sprint backlogs for whether they contain whatever details the organization chooses to be required/standard information.

All of the above are specific to Scrum.  However, PPQA is also about the work products, so however you perform PPQA on work products may only change due to Scrum in that the nature, content, depth, details, or frequency of work products may change, but not necessarily the fact that PPQA is performed on them.

One bit of advice, however, is to work with the product owner, the development team, and their scrum master to ensure that any of your activities that consumes developer time be included in the product and sprint backlogs so that they can account for that time in their burn-down.

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On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Ahmed ALmahdy <ahmed...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hello, PPQA in scrum is one of the easiest process areas to be satisfied.   1- Settle the way of work based on scrum environment 2- Raise the definition of the AS-IS model (processes definitions) 3- Assign QA with periodic QA audits, following the NCs handling, and follow the reporting mechanism Note: a QA role (either new person or additional task to another member who is not from the intended team).   I am not sure of your exact case, so I prefer you take a look at the technical report (Agile Teams Require QA: How to make it work, an experience report) by Kealy Opelt and Tracy Beeson, you can get it from Agile 2008 Conference reports from IEEE.   I hope it helps.   Ahmed Mahdy Agile CMMI Software Process Improvement Specialist --- On Thu, 2/5/09, Leonardo Frigo da Purificação <lfr...@synchro.com.br> wrote: From: Leonardo Frigo da Purificação <lfr...@synchro.com.br> Subject: [CMMi Process Improvement] PPQA and Agile To: cmmi_process...@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 8:54 AM Hi! Ok, the "GP 2.9 monster" is not yet killed, but once you give me reasons to don't be afraid of him, I then feel comfortable to ask the Agile related question… I would like to know: How can I apply PPQA in a Scrum environment?

We have a defined process for project planning (based on PMBoK) that once meets our quality assurance (PPQA) process, but now the company is  approaching to agile techniques and (trying to) adopting Scrum. I see, as the QA evaluator, two choices: lose my last yarn hair or have nightmares. Unless someone may help me, answering:

How/when can I do the evaluations? What I need to have plus in my actual evaluations?

Or better:

How can I get some ROI over these evaluations?

 

To don't become a bald man (no offenses please), I was thinking about to (stay cool, of course, eat healthy food and) do nothing else, i.e. perform the PPQA process as is defined – 15 to 15 days depending on the duration of the whole project. In this way the evaluation need to happen exactly in the middle of the Iteration-Sprint to have able time to solve non-compliance issues. More: having lessons learned to contribute in the retrospective.

Thinking in this way, how much chances I have to stop all my nightmares?

 

Cheers&Peace!

Leo

p.s.: maybe some of you had seen the same question in another list, excuse me for that, but I really will feel better with these answers...

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Hillel Glazer, Principal & CEO
Entinex, Inc.,  The Technology Strategy Company
www.entinex.com | www.AgileCMMI.com | www.CMMIFAQ.info
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