Test Management shares many aspects with Project Management, in our view however, there are as many differences:

• The test activities are part of the Project Plan, but:
  • in many cases, are at the end of the project
  • are considered so flexible, that any delay in the project could be eliminated during testing without suffering loss of quality .
• During this phase, the organization "feels" the product first time,
  • which results in changes
  • whilst resources (f.i. key-users) already have been allocated to other tasks.
• All issues found, have a duality;
  • Hurrah !, we we found the error NOW
  • Bad luck for planning, this means, time needed for:
    • Administration of the issue
    • Retest time needed, once the issue has been solved
    • Administrative time at retesting, even more if the retest fails 

When setting up a test project, simplicity and repeatability of the process are our main objectives. The use of test metric the is of great benefit.

Our test managers could be employed:

• Executive, full-time and Part-time
• As coach
• As Trainer 

We would be happy to show you, how proper test management will avoid nasty discussions about software quality, at the final stage of a project.