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Monthly Archives: March 2006

Quality Really IS Free

Scott Berkun recently brought up Philip Crosby’s classic Quality is Free on his PMClinic mailing list, in a discussion about how to “successfully argue for time for higher quality”. If argued on its merits, that should be an easy one: it really is cheaper to introduce activities that raise the quality of the software than [...]

Iterative Development and the Efficiency Gap

Jenny and I were talking yesterday about short, time-boxed releases. Breaking a project into short, frequently delivered releases is a technique which has been gaining in popularity lately. Agile methodologies like SCRUM and XP rely on them, but they can be found as phased releases in traditional development shops as well. It’s clear why they’re [...]