{"id":38,"date":"2014-02-10T16:26:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T22:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cigniti.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2020-01-27T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T06:29:38","slug":"measuring-the-success-of-tcoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/measuring-the-success-of-tcoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring the success of TCoE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhat gets measured, gets done\u201d. This could not be truer after setting up a Test Center of Excellence (TCoE). A TCoE is setup to centralize testing resources, tools and practices in a large enterprise and offer testing as a shared service across multiple groups. Enterprises need to constantly prove the value of retaining the TCoE and increase the management\u2019s commitment to further develop the TCoE. In this paper, we out-line the different metrics that measure the business benefits delivered by the TCoE.<\/p>\n

Why TCoE?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Traditional \u201csiloed test teams\u201d are distributed across multiple business units (or) groups and they are governed by different managers. Because of this organizational design, test teams cannot ensure testing consistency across the organization as they are controlled by managers who have their own priorities and political realities about the importance and budget allocation for testing. This led to massive inefficiencies across the organization in terms of costs, reusing best practices, quality of testing, effective utilization of teams, hardware & software. A testing centre of excellence solves this problem by the centralization of all test assets (people, hardware infrastructure, software licenses, process assets) across the organization and offering \u201ctesting\u201d as a shared service across multiple lines of business units (or) groups. Collapsing multiple test groups into a centralized testing group will lead to better efficiencies due to economies of scale & optimization. Testing Centres of Excellence (TCoE) (Ref Fig 1.2) framework ties all the strategic assets of the testing such as people, process, hardware & tools which are held together through enablers and a robust governance model. Transformation of a \u201csiloed testing organization\u201d to a \u201cTCoE based testing organization\u201d.<\/p>\n

Measuring success of TCoE<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a need for a measurement framework that can compare the intended benefits versus actual benefits to demonstrate the effectiveness of TCoE. It should be comprehensive and cover all aspects like people, costs, quality, test maturity and speed. A TCoE promises the following benefits for an organization.<\/p>\n