Valuing Quality

A company with a culture that values quality produces a high-quality product. A company that lacks this culture will not produce a high-quality product, because quality isn't the focus. If your company has a culture that values quality, your quality improvement effort will be easy. If not, talk to your CEO about the business impact of poor quality, and seek his support to improve quality overall.

To begin fostering a culture that values quality, train developers and QA staff to think about quality as an attitude rather than simply a product goal or state. Building a "quality attitude" among members of the development team improves quality more than even the best QA practices. Why? Because having an attitude that values quality from ...

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