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A culture of refusing responsibility is better how?

• adrianN 7y ago
  The opposite of a blame culture is not a culture of refusing responsibility, but a system where you look for problems in the process when a fault makes it into the final product. It's always a mixture of specification, implementation, and QA that makes mistakes possible. Putting the blame on the engineer is not very helpful, it does little to prevent future problems. Trying to figure out how it was possible that an implementation bug made it through QA allows you to prevent similar mistakes in the future (at least if you're lucky).
  • wpietri 7y ago
    Just to be clear, I'm not putting the blame on the engineer. Many people are responsible for this failure. What I'm saying is that the engineer is one of the responsible people, and that as fellow engineers we should be especially concerned with making sure that responsibility is correctly performed and has appropriate accountability.