Training.

So this morning i came into office slightly earlier then usual cos there was a training on peer review and functional requirement gathering for quality control. The training was provided cos since we are partners with ac thus we are required to follow their style of project management.

The training was rather interactive with activities in between to keep us awake. Learned quite a fair bit of new things. ie. the reasons of peer review, the style and way peer reviews are done, the effectiveness on these peer reviews. But the entire session for this peer review is mainly trying to convince us to perform peer review. Learnt also the differences between the words Faults, Defects and Error. Also, the cost of detecting one of the previous mentions. The cost of a fault is much more expensive then defects. And usually when a fault or defect surfaces, the cost will be escalated by almost 30% since the final product is already done and the change has to be done all the way back to the design stage.

Learnt another things which is rather useful and i didn't have knowledge about it previously. There is a thin line bewteen requirements doc and functional doc and design doc. Learnt wat should be in wat and how to restructure sentence to remove ambiguity. Was also thought that there should be a baseline doc to follow and once signed, everything will be build upon this doc. Thus, everything in this doc got to be concise, direct and detailed. If the client wants to build a car, the doc must fully describe the car and not in the end after building becomes a motorcycle.

The trainer said one thing which really hit me due to my previous project in my ex company. It exactly reflects the sceanario. The functional doc was not specific enough. There were so many ambiguity when build started. Functional was not done properly. The end product was not what the user had expected. Timeline drag and drag and drag and yet budget was constant. Do not know what they asked for is a new request or exisiting just that we did wrongly cos the baseline was not define clearly and it wasn't signed off.

Hmm..Really amazing to see how the quality control ppl come up with guidelines to ensure on time project deliveries. But i will say, beacuse there are so many things to be done, there isn't much time to do everything. Thus, the task is left to the pm to decide with guidelines he wants to follow and suits the project best. Ha ha. But the PM from ac in this project is really good i will say.