Juran's Quality Handbook, Sixth Edition: The Complete Guide to Performance Excellence
NeuraMetrics co-founder and Board Director, Bruce J. Hayes, has contributed a new topic which covers Agile Software and Systems Development to the sixth addition of the Juran Quality Handbook .
The New Juran Quality Handbook 6th Edition was released at the ASQ World Conference in St. Louis, MO., on Monday, May 24th. Joseph A. De Feo, President of Juran Institute, author and editor-in-chief of the Juran Quality Handbook 6th edition states, "This is a complete revision and special edition of the legendary quality management handbook." The 6th edition will commemorate the legacy of Dr. Joseph M. Juran, preserving his knowledge and experience for future organizational leaders and quality professionals continuing to learn how to produce superior quality and business results. Visit the Juran store to purchase this outstanding edition...
Chapter 29: Software and Systems Development: From Waterfall to AGILE - Bruce J. Hayes - This chapter will deal with the generally accepted principles of software quality improvement and reference information from a number of proven expert sources and place into context the growing need for these items to be flexible and balanced in their application, as dictated by changing technology, strategies, and business and customer requirements.
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Rapid Assessment for Product & Technology Development… helps leaders learn where to leverage strengths and where to focus improvement work. A lean, on-line development assessment that opens an on-line interview for employees to explore how they actually perform their work and then scores and compares those behaviors to best practice organizations.
Engineered and developed to quickly cover a much richer and deeper footprint than interview-based assessments, RAPTD gathers the data and distills results to a set of dynamic dashboards and analysis tools that help leaders learn where to leverage strengths and where to focus improvement work. Using the NeuraMetrics NeuraTool on line assessment platform, Bruce Hayes has created a lean, on-line development assessment called RAPTD (Rapid Assessment for Product & Technology Development). This tool opens an on-line interview for employees to explore how they actually perform their work and then scores and compares those behaviors to product and technology development best practices.
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RAPTD™ is a performance improvement tool, powered by the NeuraMetrics Inc. assessment and analysis platform called NeuraTool™. Through this web based technology, companies will understand their “Current Reality” related to processes, behaviors and most importantly, performance and improvement potential. RAPTD applys Industry best practices and expertise to produce comprehensive queries that are administered over the web to a strategically selected group of managers, employees and front-line personnel. A comprehensive analysis is then made available to understand specific performance gaps and improvement opportunities. This unique and quantitative insight drives understanding, benchmarking capability and targeted improvement in priority areas including:
Causes to long running problems
Behavioral reasons for poor execution
Sources of Customer dissatisfaction
Gaps between locations and functions
Long term business risks
Lack of alignment
Non-traditional opportunities
Why Use It?
Companies can now prioritize and address identified gaps against a specific recognized set of Best Practices developed over years of experience in product and technology development. Correction of the weaknesses identified by the RAPTD assessment will lead to improved business outcomes with “Business Intelligence that is Strategic and Actionable”. Allowing Companies to:
Determine major areas for improvement and create strategic impressions that drive the development of improvement actions.
Identify strengths that can be used for strategic advantage or cost-effective replication of successes
Baseline against internal standards or benchmark against industry standards to characterize progress in corrective endeavors.
Perform efficient and comprehensive assessments at a fraction of consultant-based cost, eliminate workplace disruption, and realize higher reliability conclusions by getting direct input from a large base of knowledgeable respondents
Bruce Hayes is a co-founder and Board Director at NeuraMetrics where he focuses on Business Development, Executive Coaching and Business Intelligence tool deployment. He is a highly experienced Operations Professional and Consultant with over 27 years of business and engineering experience. He was formerly a Senior Executive at Motorola where he was one of the key contributors to developing and “operationalizing” Six Sigma. He has served as an Executive Coach and Mentor for many fortune 500 companies who have successfully implemented major improvement initiatives. He helps clients achieve breakthrough improvements in services, products, and the technologies that drive them. His approach to product and process improvement, while focused on Lean Six Sigma, leverages the contributions of a wide range of approaches, best practices, and standards. He offers training and workshops (both standalone and integrated into Lean Six Sigma training) that incorporate the best from industry standards and best practices such as the Baldrige criteria, ISO, Re-Engineering, ITIL, IEEE, the Software Engineering Institute, the Project Management Institute, ASQ, Theory of Constraints, Voice of the Customer, and others. He has developed the above mentioned assessment product and it is offered through NeuraMetrics Inc.
