#Solo - How to negotiate a project budget for Quality?

The Quality Engineering Podcast

A solo episode dedicated to quality negotiation for software projects in the QE Unit https://qeunit.com

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This project is complicated: aggressive dates, multiple rework, and hours that accumulate. We would have liked to be more efficient between our results and our efforts, part of the definition of quality.

We can even imagine thinking: “with 30% of the project budget allocated to quality, it would be much easier; a better definition of the requirements, tests giving us rapid upstream feedback”. The reality is far from it.

It is not enough to arbitrarily allocate time, especially since business constraints do not allow it. “How to negotiate a project budget allocated to Quality?” was the theme of our round table suggested by Arnaud.

The title leaves clues as to practices to put in place. If they seem far from the pure negotiation of a quality budget to you, it is normal; this is not the first subject to address.

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00:00 Introduction and why hope is not a strategy

02:00 Why have to negotiate? Why negotiate a quality budget?

04:10 Prepare a negotiation upstream of collaborative workshops

05:20 Understand and map the stakeholders

06:30 Align the stakeholders around common interests

08:15 Define the measures of value to be followed in the iterations

09:10 What to do when the negotiation seems closed?

13:10 The negotiation mistakes to avoid

15:15 Negotiation requires understanding, diagnosis and strategy

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