The 2nd Global State of Quality is here! This new iteration of the 2013 research provides an analysis of nearly 1,700 companies. The research results are included in the qualitative and quantitative Discoveries 2016 report, which addresses topics important to enhancing quality, including the influence of the customer, trends in industry Read more…
How many times you have to answer the question: What do you do for living? It is not as simple as saying ‘I’m a Quality Software Engineer’, sometimes people don’t know exactly what does it mean and you have to find the correct way to explain them what are your Read more…
In May, ASQ CEO Paul Borawski wrote in his blog about “The Government/Quality Puzzle“. Some of his thoughts were: “Why do citizens expect and demand so little accountability for the poor use of resources in government? Why do so few leaders charged with leading countries, states, provinces, and cities require Read more…
This month, ASQ CEO Paul Borawski wrote in his blog about happiness and job satisfaction in the quality field, and asked a question to discuss with the Influential Voices group: “Are quality professionals happy on the job?” This interesting topic came to live because a recent study from CareerBliss.com, published Read more…
Un interesante artículo escrito por la columnista Jacquelyn Smith de la revista Forbes revela que, según un estudio realizado por la empresa CareerBliss las personas que trabajan como Ingenieros en Aseguramiento de Calidad de Software son los empleados mas felices/satisfechos en los Estados Unidos. El estudio se llevó a cabo encuestando a mas Read more…
Q: I’m a Quality Manager of a manufacturing company, and the group involved in QA activities and the one performing QC activities, both report to me. My question is: Can the same person be manager of QA and QC departments? Or each department must have its own manager? ~Greg~ A: In my opinion, Read more…
Q: I’m a Quality Control Inspector, my question is: as I am working as QA/QC means both works i’m carrying out, is this advantageous for me or I must keep concentration on only one side? ~Jasim~ A: Answering your question, my opinion is that, if this is your first job, working for Read more…
As we’ve talked in a previous post about the Definition of Quality, with these 2 terms exist the same “issue” where every single person/organization defines Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) in a bit different way. Also, many people including HHRR (Human Resources) and quality professionals do not know Read more…
