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7.4.3. Independence and organizational structure / Vladimir Ryabikin

Организация должна следить за корректностью интерпретации и выполнения ключевых практик, реализующих концепцию независимости. Это имеет особенно большое value for small projects and organizations. If the technical or organizational biases may affect the quality of the product or project risks, key practices recommend the use of the concept of independence. Two examples of such practices:

Group Quality Assurance (SQA) has a channel reporting to senior management that is independent from the project manager of software development and other groups associated with the development (commitment 1.2 of section "Quality Software").

System and acceptance test scripts and procedures are planned and prepared by a team of testing that is independent from software development (action 7.3 of the section "Engineering software development).

need for independent system and acceptance testing due to technical factors. This independence ensures that employees of testing not be subject to the decisions taken by developers or by support software for its design and implementation.

Independence of quality dictated by the fact that the graph and the project budget should not affect the work of the members of this group. Lack of institutional independence can greatly complicate the provision of effective operational independence. For example, an employee who is accountable to the project manager may be forced to interrupt testing despite the existence of serious Problems with the compatibility of the product.

Organizations should define an organizational structure that would support the independence of operations similar quality in the context of their strategic business goals and business environment.

Independence should:

provide team members ensure the quality of organizational freedom, allowing them to be « eyes and ears" of senior management of the project;

exclude the imposition of measures staff of quality assurance from the leadership of the project, which they submit a report;

provide confidence of senior management the objectivity of the reports received by the manufacturing process and products of the project.

Since the key practices lend themselves to different interpretations of the criteria independence, the organization must obtain a professional assessment of their compliance with the objectives of key processes.