Tag: user acceptance testing

  • Understanding User Acceptance Testing in a Project

    Understanding User Acceptance Testing in a Project

    If you work in the IT, digital or software industry, you will have come across ‘User Acceptance Testing’ in relation to projects. Whilst you may not currently be required to manage this specific project phase, it is useful to understand the process for your future development as a project management professional. Here’s an overview explaining…

  • Ten QA Tips for Project Managers

    Ten QA Tips for Project Managers

    Quality Assurance is the process concerned with monitoring the quality of all aspects of a project so that the final product fulfils all requirements. So QA is performed before the product is finished – it is an essential part of project management and one of the factors that will determine whether the project is a…

  • The importance of end-users in IT Projects

    The importance of end-users in IT Projects

    I met up with an old colleague recently who I worked with when we were both IT Project Managers for a large blue-chip corporation. Our conversation got me thinking about how often the opinions of end-users in IT projects are dismissed as of little importance or, worse, ignored completely. The stakeholders, senior management, project manager,…

  • User Acceptance Testing is Necessary for Every Project

    User Acceptance Testing is Necessary for Every Project

    A recent project that was done for a small business I know was a good example of why formal User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is essential for all projects no matter what their size and complexity – even those small projects that are more of a makeover than a full-blown project. This particular project involved “re-skinning”…

  • Why you need to build testing into your project

    Why you need to build testing into your project

    We’ve all had experiences where something doesn’t work quite as it should. Websites that take us to a ‘404’ page, apps for our smartphones that keep crashing and products that aren’t really up to the job. For the user, this is frustrating. For the developer, this is result of poor or improper testing. Projects are…