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Offshoring and Quality assurance

For every software product company which is doing agile offshore, Quality Assurance (QA) is one of the critical components that help in maintaining a competitive edge. While doing QA with geographically dispersed teams, the offshore team has to offer end-to-end customer-oriented testing service till the software as designed and implemented fulfills the requirements set out at the requirements stage.

Well and good…So the question is How can we assure the win- win situation for both onsite and offsite sides?

When the customer and the team are separated by a distance, certain issues invariably arise. And QA also comes under that bracket. Here are some of the best practices in testing we can adopt for a successful QA in an off shored agile team.

* No language barriers.Rely on English or other conceivable language. It is important as agile is all about communication. The testers review the stories and story tests to make sure the stories are consistent and testable, and can go back to the customer with questions. So for this smooth conversation language shouldn’t be a barrier.

* When organizing a dedicated team for QA choose the most appropriate skills for your project .It is all about picking up the most talented from the pool. The onsite company can select the right testers after personal interviewing and necessary tests.

* Synchronize the offshore with the onsite business hours. Builds and test runs can be scheduled to be ready by offshore mornings so that the analysis on any failures is complete and ready to be picked up by onsite mornings.

* Focus on short iterations and quick feedback cycles. Keep up with development iterations and regression testing. Do upfront testing, i.e. test-driven development and unit testing.

* Incorporate a high degree of automation, particularly around regression testing and continuous integration. Use lightweight regression testing tools. Sometimes, due to the size of the product, it is not practical to run the entire suite of regression tests because it simply takes too long.

Skilled and experienced dedicated testers are an invaluable part of any good Agile team. Applying their expertise and using some of the approaches outlined in this article can help in ensuring successful delivery and ultimately, customer satisfaction.

What is the secret for success in business? Most successful entrepreneurs receive this question. Answers will mostly be common sense. So why others on the same domain not able to replicate the success always? Answer to that question is 80-20 rule.

What is 80-20 rule in business? 80% of the activities is common in the business,if same domain. But the remaining 20% makes one company different from another.This 20% is the real Intellectual Property of that company. It contains the activities and specialities of the owner of that business.

Always this 20% will be innovative things. This means that the activities from this 20% will move to the 80% bracket and new ones will fall into the 20% bracket. That is the secret of success in business. That cements the fact the each business is different from another.

Normally of the shelf technology solutions will have the activities in 80% bracket.But the real success comes when the technology solutions are able to accept and incorporate the activities from the 20% bracket. This is possible only when the business owners and technology experts discuss the points with attention to detail and then incorporating in the technology solution for the business. That is what I call as tailor made technology solution. So once you find the right technology solution with 80% activities and if that solution is extendable with the 20% activities at an acceptable time frame, you are transforming your business to a technology driven successful business.

How to enable or improve efficiency in an organization?

This is the common question we could hear from the every entrepreneur. Many of the successful businessmen will rely on the experience to take decisions and the modern age business leaders lean on Technology to get their needed information. Implementation of an enterprise level software by integrating all the departments in an organization, it will be definitely possible to enable or improve efficiency by removing the bottlenecks in accessing information from/to departments. Seamless flow of data/information will ensure that the owners get their needed information at one shot!

We at ITFlux, group of passionate functional and technical team members make the life of our clients easier by the unique and specific implementation techniques of ERP. Whether the industry be in any domain, the implementation will ensure that their business is positively affected. Thanks to the talented team!

There are many businesses which are successful in this earth. Many of them started the businesses even centuries ago. I believe its their processes without any IT support (when the word IT was just “it” in English ???? ), enabled them to reach today’s level. This clearly means that processes are key to success.

With the evolution of Information Technology, things are now much more easy. It is now possible to implement the processes through a software. Standardized business process across the world has resulted with the innovation of ERP software. There are companies who are ready to adapt the processes specified by ERP. But some companies wanted to follow their own processes and the ERP Software will be customized to suit the needs.

Either cases, when the software is properly implemented it will add tremendous value to business. Success in implementation will be determined only when the Leadership team uses the data directly from the ERP dashboard for their board meetings and taking decisions. ERP Software Implementation can’t be treated as successful just with ease of data entry.

Time is money. System is Implemented. Use the system to its best thereby saving precious time and earning more money.