#quality (6 links)
- The Costco theory of the internet joanwestenberg.com
A low tolerance for bullshit has to run as an operating system, built it into how the place works.
- Let's stop confusing execution with delivery linkedin.com
Delivery is about output. Tickets closed, features shipped, velocity charts trending up. It's visible, measurable, manageable. Execution is about system design: how your organization actually turns intent into outcomes. It's the invisible architecture that determines whether you're learning or just busy.
Helpful framing when working with feature factory places.
- Decentralizing quality matthewstrom.com
Why moving judgment to the edges wins in the long run
- maetl . code is not inevitable maetl.net
"The distinction between good code and crap code is essentially literary. Good code emerges from an intuitive ability to separate structure from intention – to compose minimalist flows of well formed cues that balance direct statements of logic with modular flexibility. Holistic, pattern based thinking is important, treating the locality of a single statement in the context of its position in a larger system, and also understanding that this position is fluid, and may change as the system changes and grows." This is great.
- Does Accessibility Cost More? - Accessites.org accessites.org
But why not charge more? Accessible, standards-complaint sites are quality sites, and quality sites, like quality cars, quality watches, and quality everything else, tend to be more expensive.
- Design View / Andy Rutledge - Web Standards: it's about quality, not compliance andyrutledge.com · Archived on
If you want to become involved in something worthwhile and whose purpose has been woefully mischaracterized, become a Web quality activist and lend some of that communication skill to this worthy social cause.