Yeah, I agreed with the article except on testing / QA. I was skeptical of these at first too, but in retrospect, it was not okay to externalize the cost of tes

Yeah, I agreed with the article except on testing / QA. I was skeptical of these at first too, but in retrospect, it was not okay to externalize the cost of testing onto other people. In those companies I've worked where we released in some waterfall-ish manner and/or QA was important, we have both.