It's like saying communism isnt the problem, but that it s how every single group attempted to implement it that should be blamed. Sure, maybe, but if nobody e

It's like saying communism isnt the problem, but that it s how every single group attempted to implement it that should be blamed. Sure, maybe, but if nobody ever can implement the theoretical utopia, maybe we should talk of things humans can do instead and ditch the unimplementable idea. QA cannot be done by a separate team the way you dream: it will always be a political buffer zone staffed by the cheapest half-competent people you can find, expulsing good people into dev or management. Or you merge it into dev/solution design. The reason is simple: just like contract law, you only care about quality once you are in trouble and need to reverse back the source of the issue to give to the client a post mortem. Otherwise, you care first about velocity, or $ input/hr of effort.