OK, Now that we know the Super Intelligent Shades of the Color Green are going to take over the world, lets get on with less important things... like testing.

I've been working on processes and metrics for developing test sets for quite a while now (a couple of years). I love doing technical work so it has been tough doing mainly documentation. I have worked on some test programs part time while working on the processes, so it hasn't been totally tortuous.

I believe there is always a process of one type or another in developing test stations. The problem is some times the process is the POOMA (Pull Out Of My A**) process or maybe the "wing it" process. But then there's the other end of the process universe. This is where the process makes it nearly impossible to do a small project. Then, in the middle, there's the agile process which is suppose to be the processes that allow tasks to be done quickly and with the ability to easily adapt to changes. It's still not a cure all.

Even people who say they have no process, have a process, it's just not as straight forward as most or even seems coherent.

After working on the processes for a while I know that one process does not fit all projects even though that's what we try to do. I was suppose to document the process we go through to build test stations. Each project has been unique in it's own way, with some process steps that aren't in the process and skipping other steps that are in the process. Some projects that try to follow the process finds that outside groups don't follow the process which makes our process fail. There's many reason's process fail.

If the processes aren't working (not that people just don't want to do it), they need to be adjusted , in real-time rather than going through the year long process change process.

The project leads, the one's actually have to make the process happen, have to be the ones to adjust the process as needed. They need the lead way to adjust it as needed. The Process police also need to understand a single written process is not a panacea, it won't cure all. The processes need to be adjusted.

While I've been working on the processes, this is the dilemma I've been dealing with, having processes that don't imped getting things done but satisfies the Process Police.