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On Quality: An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings

Each quarter we try to study an admirable company and discuss it with our Operating Group managers and board members. We focus on high performance conglomerates that have demonstrated at least a decade of superior shareholder returns.

Ryan • Mark Leonard Letters

The fidelity of the system increases as extensions are added, or early versions are replaced by more complete versions of these parts of the software. In some cases, the parts may be low-fidelity versions or prototypes of the final functionality; in other cases, they may be surrogates that consume and produce data at the appropriate rates but do li... See more

Paul Clements • Software Architecture in Practice, 4th Edition

One of the by-products of quality activities is that they provide a memory bank from which to draw in the years ahead.

Gary D Chapman • The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

Consistent, high quality is a must: This prerequisite comes up time and again. Successful premium supplier s maintain high and very consistent quality levels. Their service must also meet the same requirements.

Hermann Simon • Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything

Formal definition of quality attributes is pretty established in the standards world, although few practitioners are aware of them. For example, the product quality model defined in ISO/IEC 25010,13 part of the SQuaRe model, comprises the eight quality characteristics shown in Figure 2.5.

Murat Erder • Continuous Architecture in Practice: Software Architecture in the Age of Agility and DevOps (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Vernon))

While in theory the notion of Quality might appear rather philosophical and idealistic, in practice it could not be more pragmatic. One can think of Quality as simply the highest -leverage input into a system. F or illustrative purposes we could envision a continuum of layers starting with a company’s high -level outputs: financial figures and key ... See more

Anonymous • Conviction

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The article found a number of practices that had a significant impact on the quality of the final system. One was a strong correlation between quality and the early delivery of a partially functioning system. The article reported that the less functional the initial delivery, the higher the quality in the final delivery. The article also found a st