Quality Posts

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Defining quality with Non-Functional Requirements

In Quality • 2 min read

NFRs are rarely met with the same excitement or urgency as customer facing features, yet they are critical to a project’s success and tend to be much harder to retrofit.

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Pride and the Definition of Done

In Quality, Scrum • 1 min read

Using developer pride as a measure of quality.

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10 projects, 10 people

In Productivity, Quality, Scrum • 1 min read

You wake one day with 10 projects to complete, and 10 people to do the work.

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1% better

In Quality • 1 min read

Baking continuous improvement into the Definition of Done.

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Distraction epidemics

In Quality • 1 min read

Vicious cycles and defect infections.

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The quality cake

In Quality • 1 min read

In software development, testing is often considered synonymous with quality but by this point we may already be way off track.

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There's value in the fairness of a deal

In Quality • 2 min read

If we're the seller we can skew the deal our way a little (or a lot), taking more than we deserve or sneaking certain details under the rug.

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Speed vs. Quality

In Productivity, Quality • 1 min read

The perception of progress is not progress.

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Scope creep is a function of duration

In Productivity, Quality, Scrum • 3 min read

Fighting the passage of time.

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Psychological safety; the key quality of effective teams

In Productivity, Quality, Scrum • 2 min read

A team’s performance is not a function of the intelligence or individual strengths of its members, but the way that a team interacts.

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Continuous improvement; an oft-overlooked meta-skill

In Learning, Productivity, Quality • 3 min read

Making a habit of assessing and improving the way we get things done.

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Wired to favour red decisions

In Productivity, Psychology, Quality • 2 min read

Short-sighted solutions create long-term problems.

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