The Mindset

Stop whatever it is you’re doing. There’s a new buzz in town.
In our ultra-dynamic industry, yesterday’s Holy Grail is today’s old news. A couple of days ago I wrote about Googlism as the new emerging religion, and what do you know, I’ve just discovered the signs of a new one, already creeping into blogs, articles, […]

Sometimes you hear managers use magic arguments, which seem to rebut any argument about the need for improvement. The beauty of these arguments is in their generality: they seem to fit any discussion on any issue and always explain why things should stay as they are.
As a service to the new generation of managers, […]

In Quality In The Real World I’ve suggested an abstract formula for practicing quality in your business environment. According to this formula, achieving quality from a business perspective is balancing all the aspects and forces affecting the way you create your products and finding the golden path that will maximize your benefit for the long […]

Here’s a rhetorical poll: How many times have you heard (or said) one or more of the following sentences:

Time to market is more important to us than quality.
Our customers don’t care about quality. They just want the product delivered as soon as possible.
We have to settle for “good enough quality” because we don’t have […]

Every now and then, I come across arguments such as the following:

“There is no sense in investing too much time in designing the product. It only has to be ‘good enough’”.
“We don’t have time for writing Unit Tests. This project is not that critical anyway.”
“Code Reviews? Too much effort for this project. The code doesn’t […]