A Review of Quality Relationship between IT Processes, IT Products and IT Services

Producing IT products/services required carefully designed. IT development process is intangible and labour intensive. Making optimal use of available resources, both soft (knowledge, skill-set etc.) and hard (computer system, ancillary equipment etc.), is vital if IT development is to achieve sensible economical advantages. Apart from the norm of Project Life Cycle and System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), there is an urgent need to establish a general yet widely acceptable guideline on the most effective and efficient way to precede an IT project in the broader view of Product Life Cycle. The current paper proposes such a framework with two major areas of concern: (1) an integration of IT Products and IT Services within an existing IT Process architecture and; (2) how IT Product and IT Services are built into the framework of Product Life Cycle, Project Life Cycle and SDLC.

Authors:

• Whee Yen Wong
• Chan Wai Lee
• Kim Yeow Tshai

Keywords:

• Mapping of Quality Relationship
• IT Processes/IT Products/IT Services
• Product Life Cycle
• System Development Life Cycle.

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