Following objectives have been agreed with line manager and R&D manager for the software testing assessment.

Why to support for Qt Governance and Quality Management

The quality management system (QMS) means everything that is used to translate needs into results in a controlled, integrated and repeatable manner.

QMS helps employees to do the right things and to do things right, all the time. QMS can be based on the ISO 9001 standard that companies can be certified to.

A certification provides assurance of independent 3rd party compliance confirmation for the customers.

Many customers will have the ISO 9001 certificate as a prerequisite, hence the most obvious benefits of the ISO 9001 certification are in terms of sales and marketing. Internally the biggest advantage is the continuous improvement approach.

(Source: Asmo's thesis)

How to support?

Help stakeholders to be successful by collaborating with them and adding value.

There are various internal and external stakeholders, such as, but not limited to:

• Strategy management
• Product management
• Quality management
• R&D teams
• Marketing
• Sales and technical sales engineers
• Talent management and HR partners
• Partners (development, testing, tooling)

What to do in practice?

Consider following items:

• Support customer interfaces in regulated domains, such as automotive and medical device vendors
• Management quality reviews and internal quality audits
• Talent management and culture development
• Collaboration with universities
• Collaborate with partners
• Research and pilot new methods and tools
• Information sharing and communication