13.7 Person Responsible for Quality

The context here is the person responsible for quality in a given project. This person ensures that quality assurance activities are sufficient to fulfill the requirements for them and for the product generally . This person also ensures that quality assurance activities are performed as they should be, by auditing quality records and configuration management and its products and performing requirements inspections, code reviews, and so on. This person might also ensure that other processes in the project are being followed as they should be.

To audit configuration management, the person responsible must have a good knowledge of configuration management generally and for the project in particular. This person must also have a good knowledge of measurements configuration management can produce and how they can be used. For the part of the task related to configuration management, activities may be

  • Establishing requirements concerning the quality of configuration management activities and their results

  • Following up on the quality of the planned configuration management activities and their results, such as producing a configuration management plan; identifying, storing, and using configuration items; and handling change requests

  • Creating event registrations for related configuration items, if events are observed

  • Reporting and summarizing results of achieved quality

Quality assurance activities and configuration management activities overlap, among other things in connection with the approval of configuration items. Here it must be clarified who is responsible for what, so the responsibility doesn't fall between two job responsibilities.

Managing Configurations of Quality Assurance Work Products

Configuration management activities should also be performed for products the person responsible for quality produces, as appropriate. This person can set a good example by following relevant configuration management processes.

References

More details about relevant subjects may be found in Chapter 17Quality Assurance.



Configuration Management Principles and Practice
Configuration Management Principles and Practice
ISBN: 0321117662
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 181

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