Software Development Life Cycle

There are some interesting challenges for SQA role &

activities in my organization.

This is with reference to Software Industry.

Basically there is at a gross level lack of compliance to

Quality Management system (This is more to do with a mindset

issue & ego, high esteem perspective, ‘I can delivery

without QMS’)

Even the people in escalation path just listen, but do not

take much action.

SQA is supposed to co-ordinate reviews (tech and management)

However the fact is that practitioners preciously know when

a review is required as they have higher and bigger stake in

the project and they do it exactly when required

irrespective of what SQA says.

SQA is then merely a coordinator.

If SQA recommends a practice, no one follows (even though it

is understood that SQA is a customer advocate), when the

same thing is asked by customer, without fail everyone follows!

I find something wrong with the way SQA

Roles/Responsibilities are defined & implemented in the

organization I work with.

In one of the CMM Books I came across a Disadvantage of SQA

concept that was indicative of organizations would not want

to assign their best technical talent into such roles.