Through CMM top evaluation after the development direction of the four: engineering supervision

Background information:

People who do software often like to compare software development activities to construction activities, the same project as the core, the same to set up the project manager, but also to understand the needs of users, but also to do the framework design, the same need to do detailed design, the same to carry out specific project implementation, the same delivery acceptance, and so on, and so on, There are too many similarities in the implementation of these two industries.

In recent years, engineering supervision in the construction industry has been widely used successfully. In the software industry, the business is also in the ascendant, because development activities in the human brain, so software projects than construction projects more difficult to control. Therefore, it is very necessary to introduce the idea of project supervision into the software industry.

At present, whether it is outsourcing, hosting, testing or consulting training, the main targets are some software companies. The scope of business object is relatively unitary, and the project supervision can be expanded to a large part of the customer base after it is sent to the development. such as telecommunications, mobile, banking, postal and other strength and emphasis on software project quality of large customers, if the field of vision to be more open some words, you can think that wherever there is software projects, there may be engineering supervision of customers. In addition, the company's QA engineers in a large number of project quality assurance work has accumulated and deposited a lot of engineering supervision of practical experience, and many times in the pre-assessment and formal assessment as the advantages of the enterprise to obtain the praise of the foreign Director of the evaluation Division. Based on these prerequisites, the software engineering supervision business has been formally incorporated into the future development direction of the company.

Development opportunities:

A completely unfamiliar concept of the proposed, people from the recognition of the need for a longer period of time, so sometimes one step ahead may be too highbrow and failure, leading a half step is often easy to succeed. With the "supervision business" in other areas of successful use of the precedent, and then to promote "software engineering supervision", relatively easy to accept.

In addition, at present in this industry to establish a higher visibility of the professional institutions are still relatively small, there is still greater market potential can be excavated. If companies actively explore this emerging area, it is easy to become a leader in the field, rather than other business areas of the client and followers, easy to hit the Chinese "Software engineering supervision" of the first brand.

Adverse factors:

Now the market atmosphere is not very strong, the project party a general to please software engineering supervision of the consciousness are relatively weak. And at present the profit of the business is lower, usually the total amount of overseeing business reaches only about 4% of the total project contract. and reasonable range should be around 8%, in order to ensure the healthy development of supervision industry. Therefore, this market still need to spend more energy to open up, let people gradually realize the importance of software engineering supervision.

Model discussion:

The concept of "software engineering supervision" can be further extended, in addition to pure software projects, can also consider the system integration, project implementation and other projects, that is, where it projects exist project supervision. However, from the current situation, the proposal or first from the software project, if the implementation of the effect of good and then the cake bigger.

The concrete approach is to participate in the identity of the third party project supervision, according to the request of the principal, through the corresponding standard enterprise software development and management capabilities of the evaluation, to select the right developers to provide scientific decision-making reference, the development of the project process for professional monitoring, timely detection of the hidden problems of developers, Provide professional guarantee for the realization of the target of the entrusted Party project.

Available resources: QA Engineers in quality department work as project supervisor.

Applicable to: Financial, telecommunications, postal and other high quality requirements of the industry's major customers.