How organisations and projects actually know their work is good: ISO 9001 and its software-specific descendants, CMMI's graduated maturity model, and PRINCE2's quality theme.
Every framework covered elsewhere in this series — Waterfall's stage gates, Scrum's sprint cadence, a WBS's decomposition — answers "how do we plan and sequence the work?" This page and its two companions answer a…
Quality Management Systems: ISO 9001 and BS 5750 ended on a problem: ISO 9001 was written for physical manufacturing, and its vocabulary doesn't map cleanly onto software. The ISO family's own answer to that problem…
ISO 9001 asks a binary question of an organisation's quality system: does it meet the standard, or not? CMMI asks a different, more graduated question: how good, specifically, is this organisation at doing what it does…
Everything else in this series — Waterfall, Agile and its family, the scheduling techniques — describes how work gets sequenced and delivered . PRINCE2 answers a related but distinct question: how is a project governed?…