INTEGRATED IT METHODOLOGY

QAIassist® Integrated IT Methodology® is a tool that that combines the disciplines, deliverables, and work products of three (project management, development, testing) life-cycles into one integrated methodology. It promotes greater IT efficiencies through improved communications between project team members (business and IT), ensures objective project planning and governance can be applied throughout the life of the project, and incorporates "quality" throughout the development, implementation and support of an application prior to its release into the production environment.  Applicable in a multitude (agile, waterfall, prototyping, spiral, rapid application development) of delivery and support environments, the QAIassist® Integrated IT Methodology® is aligned with industry recognized standards, frameworks and "best practices". It ensures the business requirements can be identified, documented and built into the IT application. It also ensures the application is built and tested according to the authorized business requirements.

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The following documents provide a context and overview of the QAIassist Integrated Methodology®

Context Diagram

Deliverable Descriptions

Delivering the Project - Project Management
Projects can suffer and stagnate due to a number of reasons - lack of official ownership, project scope, requirements creep, ineffective planning and status oversight, allocation of resources, issue and risk management to name a few. In the majority of cases "efficiencies" can be delivered by incorporating a higher degree of project management.  The QAIassist® Integrated Methodology® provides project stakeholders, business managers, project managers, and project team members the tools and deliverables they require to plan, execute, deliver and complete any project on time and within budget.

Delivering the Application - Software Development
Far too often projects are delayed or re-worked due to deficiencies in defining the business requirements, designing of the application to satisfy those business needs, and building the application according to the design. In most cases "efficiencies" can be obtained by ensuring business requirements, architectural design, and specifications (functional and technical) are documented, communicated and shared amongst the project team members. The QAIassist Integrated Methodology® provides business managers, business analysts, architects, systems analysts, and programmers the tools and deliverables they require to establish the business requirement, design the technical solution, and develop the code for the application - delays and rework are avoided.

Delivering the Quality - Software Testing
Frequently projects fall behind schedule during development - this results in shortening the amount of time and effort available to test the user functionality. Applications are routinely "thrown over the fence" to the Quality Assurance and Testing resources with the expectation that the application is going into production on a specific date. Testing that was originally scheduled to take a month gets whittled down to one week and applications are migrated into the production environment without thorough testing. The result, an unstable application that puts stress on the business and all of the IT resources. In almost every case, "efficiencies" can be gained through applying rigor to the testing discipline to ensure applications released into the production environment meet the business needs and the specifications - applications are migrated into the production environment only upon receiving authorization from the appropriate stakeholders. The QAIassist® Integrated Methodology® provides quality managers, analysts, programmers and testers the tools and deliverables they required to ensure the application being delivered adheres to specifications and incorporates all of the business requirements.

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