Testing – Your Big Project

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Your Big Project – Series 1 Episode 11 – Testing

Welcome to Testing, talk eleven in the series ‘Your Big Project‘. Hopefully this series of podcasts will improve the chances of success for your project. We always consider the good, the bad and the extremely ugly!

Testing, properly carried out, is essential if your project is to have any chance of success. Far too often people skimp on testing as by the time it comes around the project is behind schedule. This has disastrous results. Skimping on testing can kill your successful business.

Problems include:
  • A belief that testing is a task for others
  • Testing is an IT exercise – it isn’t
  • The JFDIs are impatient and want their implementation bonus
  • We can sort out the mess after go-live

Anyone who believes in any of the above is not fit to be in the business. Such attitudes create disasters that the destroy years of building successful companies – in days.

Testing shows how well your training is working. It may highlight changes that you need to make.

Testing must be thorough, complete and everything must work properly before you sign off.

Please click on the link below to access the .PDF slide pack for this talk:

Click here to access presentation 11 – Testing

The talk is based on the experience I have gained through my involvement in a number of systems projects. I hope that you find it useful.

I hope that you gain ideas from the successes and failures of others and that you have a life changing success.

This series of podcasts is also available through iTunes (Apple Podcasts), Spotify and Stitcher.

Join me in two weeks for episode twelve of Talking Business – Your Big Project.

Lifestyles is the theme music and is licensed from AKM Music.

© The MrT Podcast Studio 2019

Author: Tim D

In the early 1970s Mr Timothy & his Phonograph was a popular mobile disco around Leeds University and Tim was known as MrT. Tim also spent 9 years broadcasting a weekly programme on Hospital Radio in Wakefield. He worked for more than 40 years for large industrial organisations and spent his last 15 years in global commercial management roles. Following retirement he started making podcasts in 2017.