January 22nd, 2025 by Kendra Stansel
Inflectra's recent webinar, "Ask an Expert - How to Handle QA KPIs in Spira," provided valuable insights into managing software quality. Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan, our global head of agile strategy, explained the importance of quality assurance in preventing defects and the impact of the cost of quality. He also highlighted key performance indicators (KPIs) for measuring software quality and demonstrated how Spira can be used to track and report on them. Watch the recording to learn how to improve your software development process with Spira!
Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan provided valuable insights into the core principles of quality management, emphasizing the importance of prevention over correction and "measuring what matters". The webinar also included a practical demonstration of how Spira can be used to track and analyze key quality metrics, empowering teams to improve their software development processes.
Recording
Key Takeaways:
- Quality assurance is more important than quality control. Quality assurance is about preventing defects, while quality control is about finding and fixing defects.
- The cost of quality is the sum of the cost of good quality and the cost of bad quality. The cost of good quality includes the cost of prevention and appraisal. The cost of bad quality includes the cost of internal and external failure.
- There are a number of KPIs that you can use to measure the quality of your software. These include defect analysis, test case coverage, test cycle time, and regression efficiency.
- You can use Spira to track and report on these KPIs. Spira has a number of built-in reports that you can use, as well as the ability to create custom reports.
About the Host:
Sriram Rajagopalan is a project management guru and Enterprise Agile Evangelist at Inflectra Corporation. Dr. Rajagopalan has extensive software development and project management experience in many industries. He won prestigious recognition from PMI with the Eric Jennet Project Management Excellence Award in 2017. He holds a BE in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the University of Madras in India, an MS in Computer Engineering from Wayne State University, and an MBA in Management from Concordia University. His Ph.D. was in Organization and Management from Capella University. Dr. Rajagopalan possesses many professional certifications in PfMP, PgMP, PMP, PMI-ACP, PMI-SP, PMI-RMP, CSP, CSPO, CSD, CSM, ACC, IT Project+, Six Sigma, SCM, SCPO, SCD, SAMC, SCT, and CSOXP.
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