Well when you have too many conflicting responsibilities tied up in one person your bound to see something slip through. Its not a culture problem, its a manag

Well when you have too many conflicting responsibilities tied up in one person your bound to see something slip through. Its not a culture problem, its a management problem. One person cannot be allowed to essentially design, development, qa, and support. If they are who knows what essential steps are not fully performed if at all? checks and balances fall by the wayside when your both. One note I remember from some buddies who used to be in similar careers, part costs are calculated not by individual unit prices but the production run. Hence a change you say, that is only a few cents can be hundreds of thousands of dollars.