Week 5 Discussions\tFirst, consider the following case study situation:\tRisk management often brings up ethical issues for project managers.\u00a0 For instance, software testing can be done in several different ways and with several different levels of rigor and comprehensiveness.\u00a0 Simpler tests may be faster and cheaper and may involve less system downtime, possibly using fewer test cases and fewer test runs.\u00a0 More robust testing may be rather expensive and time consuming, including extensive and rigorous test cases, many test runs, regression testing of previously completed production software, and so forth.\u00a0\tThe PM often must balance robustness of testing with time and cost.\u00a0 (Recall the multi-way balance of the triple constraint.)\u00a0 Sometimes, it can boil down to a trade-off between acceptable quality and delivering a system on schedule and on budget.\u00a0 Either way it goes, that is a risk.\u00a0 The approach usually depends on both the criticality and the context of the system.\tThen answer these questions:\ta)\u00a0 \u00a0 From a risk management and project management point of view, in what situation(s) should a system be more robustly tested?\tb)\u00a0 \u00a0 In what situation(s) might less testing be acceptable?\tc)\u00a0 \u00a0 Suppose you were the project manager facing pressure from your customer or executive sponsor to reduce testing time when you believe more robust testing was needed.\u00a0 What approach would you use to try to convince the executive manager to follow your advice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Week 5 Discussions First, consider the following case study situation: Risk management often brings up ethical issues for project managers.\u00a0 For instance, software testing can be done in several different ways and with several different levels of rigor and comprehensiveness.\u00a0 Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}