Quality Management

Individual performance reviews and quality

Most companies practice individual performance reviews (also called performance appraisals). This practice is quite well-established even though 40 years of management science concluded that it has caused great damage to teams in multiple areas. One can assume as to why the practice still exists: lack of knowledge and/or sunk

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Turnover effect on quality

Turnover: turnover is the act of replacing an employee with a new employee Since 1983, numerious studies have looked into the detrimental effects that companies suffer from high turnover. First and foremost, high turnover cost companies a fortune. Popular sources including Gallup publish alarming articles like this one: A trillion

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How to design a team that would produce software of good quality — emotions and interest

Quality strongly depends on the system's efficiency of the information flow — when information flow is effective, losses are lower, and quality is higher. Efficient information flow implies that parties perform a cognitive function well: Cognitive function is a broad term that refers to mental processes involved in the acquisition of

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How to design a team that would produce software of good quality — management complexity

Every manager does their own bit of people management at work, even though many don’t realise it. Some call it leadership; some call it just management. By definition, people management is: the practice of recruiting, training, engaging and retaining employees to optimize their talent and maximize their productivity Essentially

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How to design a team that would produce software of good quality — team size

As discussed in the parent article, team size should be as small as possible to provide value to the client. To note: Studies prove that the smaller the team is, the higher the quality. There’s another study by QSM which says: Teams of 3 or fewer people were the

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Qase August Updates

New sidebar Wizard Now wizard has a different view. More user-friendly and functional. Let’s go deeper to understand what has changed. With this update, there is no need to navigate your test cases in a separate Wizard modal window - navigation is carried out through the Run Dashboard itself,

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How to design a team that would produce software of good quality — knowledge overlap

In one of the previous articles, I stated that team knowledge should overlap. How can one achieve that? Knowledge comes from learning and practice. Learning can’t be enforced. People learn best when team design, culture, and work conditions encourage them. As our goal is to make people’s knowledge

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How to design a team that would produce software of good quality — no time pressure

In the previous post, I suggested considering getting rid of the whole concept of time pressure imposed on developers. Here I will review the most common scenarios when this concept emerges and think with you if the concept can be avoided. It’s well-established scientific knowledge that the stress induced

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How to design a team that would produce software of good quality — team processes

In the first chapter, I focused on team topology aspects that affect the information flow in principle. Here I will focus on the aspects of team design that influence people's behaviour (or motivation). I’m sure you must have seen ‘tired and unhappy’ receptionists at some hotel, try to recall:

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How to design a team that would produce software of good quality — information loss

As Harold F. Dodge said: You can not inspect quality into a product. He meant that the system should be designed to produce a quality product. This article is about team design: principles of team construction that will allow the team to produce a quality product. We know what ‘product’

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Qase July Updates

This month we called “Qase against bugs” and fixed a lot of them. Let's take a look at some of the most annoying bugs we've fixed. * Fixed missed projects in YouTrack project list * Fixed updating test case fields via CSV import * Returning from the defect details page now leads to

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Qase June Updates

We heard about your huge appetite for integrations. That’s understandable: to effectively work in today's inter-connected world, we need to include the other tools you already rely upon. And we’ve also added some new features to improve Qase further. Monday.com New Monday.com App is ready for

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Qase May Updates

As always we have something interesting for you. To be more specific: one integration and several features. More specifically: read below. Redmine New Redmine App is ready for use. You can install it on Apps page. To install the app you should enable the ‘Enable REST web service’ option in

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Qase April Updates

Today we are greeting new features. Dear Features, Welcome to Qase! People, please give them a warm hello 😘 Add a search box to the fields list page A very convenient feature is here! We have added the ability to search by name in fields. Choosing default options for custom fields

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Qase March Updates

Spring has arrived, and our updates have blossomed like flowers! We have no idea what that means, just look at what we have prepared for you this month: Test Run Linking This feature allow to see the history of test runs directly within the Jira issue. How to display the

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Qase February Updates

New integrations again! This month YouTrack and GitLab. And many more nice features that are sure to make you smile and perform more productively. YouTrack New YouTrack App is ready for use. You can install it on Apps page. To install YouTrack App you should provide a YouTrack URL and

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Qase January Updates

Heya! Dear customers and other nice people, this month on our menu: Integrations with Trello and Slack, a few fixes in the Test Run Wizard and a few more updates for dessert. Check out the description for more details. And enjoy using the Qase app. Trello New Trello App is

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Qase in 2021

New Year's Eve is an excellent time to reflect on the previous year and our progress over the last 12 months. We will share what has happened to the company and tell you about the most remarkable events in this post. Team The team is the most crucial thing in

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Qase December Updates

We are growing and picking up the pace quickly. Just look at how many releases we've rolled out this month. Jira Server/DC New Jira Server/DC plugin is ready for use. Follow this [https://help.qase.io/hc/en-us/articles/4414686063505-Jira-Server-Datacenter-Plugin-installation] instruction to install it. Create a new task

CVE-2021-44228 Log4j Vulnerability Update

Hi there! As you might be aware, over the recent couple of weeks there have been news about the critical vulnerability present in Apache Log4j library, which can lead to unauthorized access to the systems. We want to inform you, that Log4j library is not used in our product or

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Qase November Updates

Integrations month Integrations can be a super useful tool in your work. We love it when work gets smoother and more productive. That's why this month we have 3 new integrations for you. Read the following for more details. Asana First one: new Asana App is ready for use. You

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Qase October Updates

Bulk operations * Now you can see how many cases you have selected for the bulk operation. * You can clone multiple test cases in bulk, all at the same time (see "Clone" button on the screenshot above?). Jira integration * We have introduced a two-way statuses sync between Jira issue and Qase

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Qase September Updates

QQL improvements The power of QQL continues to grow: now you can search for any particular entity you want, whether it’s ‘plan’, ‘result’ or ‘requirement’: More transparency for anyone Dashboards and Test Plan URLs can now be shared publicly – a Qase user just shares the link and can send

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Qase Summer Updates

Hi everyone! It’s been a long time since we last updated our blog but it’s better late than never! We’d like to show off to you some of the amazing progress we’re proud to have achieved. We got our first round of funding, people 🙌 — $500k to

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Qase April Updates

Hi everyone! This is a monthly update overview for Qase, a modern TestOps platform. Migration from DO to AWS Qase is growing fast and we have decided to move the whole infrastructure from Digital Ocean to Amazon Web Services. It was the first planned maintenance period with a short downtime