Posts Tagged ‘quality’

I highly recommend working on your next project like your being filmed for training.  Better yet… actually record what you are doing and try sharing it.  You’ll learn a TON and you’ll focus on fit and finish in ways you never thought about before. Working on the OneDayApp series has dramatically improved the quality of [...]

This is part 4 of a series of posts that examine how product quality is everyone’s responsibility.  For reference, the previous posts included:   Part 1: Sales and Development Part 2: Consulting and Support Part 3: Marketing and User Experience In part 4 I’ll explain how your PM and Leadership teams own the quality of [...]

This is part 3 in a series of posts that examines how each role at a company owns the quality of product.  Part one looked at sales and development while part 2 examined the roles of consulting and support in shipping a quality product.  This part will examine how User Experience and Marketing own quality. 

This is part 2 in a series of posts that examines how each role at a company owns the quality of product.  Part one looked at sales and development. Consulting Services If you sell additional services, and code enhancements in particular, then you also own the quality of the product that was shipped. Your on [...]

Because it is.  If you write sloppy work items and specifications why would your developers write good code?  Bad bug reports… these are fixes with regressions that are just waiting to be found.  Poor requirements… these are just bad implementations waiting to be done.  Code with too many bugs… poor QA pass… As social creatures [...]

On the Freakonomics blog they link to a comparison between recent YouTube and MetaFilter user commentary.  The question is asked if $5 can improve the quality of the comments.  You can guess what this looks like, but its worth checking out the difference in comments for yourself. On the Web site thatsaspicymeatball, you can view [...]