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Systemic quality focus would be a good start. Deming-based management philosophy driving a systems-oriented model. This actually applies to all businesses; spe
by calinet6 11y ago
Systemic quality focus would be a good start. Deming-based management philosophy driving a systems-oriented model.
This actually applies to all businesses; speed improves, market fit improves (quality is just "what is good and valuable" after all), employee happiness improves (exponential gains from that alone). The effects are systemically positive.
But, no one cares, and the belief that we have to crack the whip to get people to make things faster, and we should reward the good people and punish the bad ones—will continue on as pure religious fallacy resulting in the failure or constant-operation-at-the-edge-of-failure of everything involving more than five people, probably until the end of the human race.
- Gravityloss 11y agoWell, on one hand there's six sigma and then there's the agile manifesto. That's quite a wide gulf. Would love to hear from people who have worked with developing / managing relatively high quality software with relatively modern methods. Edit: Maybe NASA's Faster Better Cheaper comes to mind...
- calinet6 11y agoSix Sigma and Agile are indeed at pretty opposite sides of the spectrum. Deming -- W. Edwards Deming, that is -- is somewhere in the middle, around the right balance. He advocated for spreading a philosophy of systems thinking, scientific method, and statistical understanding, while simultaneously empowering employees by recognizing the power and responsibility of management and leadership, and understanding the motivation from a scientifically accurate psychological viewpoint. It's a correct framework, and it's all aimed at driving quality by improving the things that directly impact it at a base level: fundamentally, how people work together, how they build systems that work, and how they're motivated (and demotivated) in reality.