Software Testing and Continuous Quality Improvement, 3rd Edition

Chapter 27

Test Management Constraints

Organizational Architecture

In the context of the Project Framework, the role of the project manager is to recognize and adapt to the organizational architecture to accomplish the project objectives. This section on the constraints of organizational architecture describes the relationship between the quality organization’s structural composition and the project manager’s responsibility for delivering project quality.

Describing all the permutations of organizational architecture is nearly impossible. This section concentrates on accomplishing projects in two divergent organizational architectures:

1. ■ Delivering project quality in conditions where process-driven quality methodology and delivery processes ...