Everyone says they hold Quality in high regard, but then when it comes time to do the work, everyone takes every escalation path to escape the QA group's mandate.
Everywhere I've been save a military shop, the political lip service is paid, but everyone by default works on getting an exec waiver on QA pushback rather than actually addressing fundamental Quality issues.
So while the advertisement in question is technically true, the way it shakes out in reality is you either have Quality valued as a political factor by those at the top, or your entire org is built like the Titanic with watertight compartments (effective Quality Controls) only up to C deck.
At that point it just takes one good iceberg of a client/feature/bad product (iceberg)... And we all know how that goes.
Everyone says they hold Quality in high regard, but then when it comes time to do the work, everyone takes every escalation path to escape the QA group's mandate.
Everywhere I've been save a military shop, the political lip service is paid, but everyone by default works on getting an exec waiver on QA pushback rather than actually addressing fundamental Quality issues.
So while the advertisement in question is technically true, the way it shakes out in reality is you either have Quality valued as a political factor by those at the top, or your entire org is built like the Titanic with watertight compartments (effective Quality Controls) only up to C deck.
At that point it just takes one good iceberg of a client/feature/bad product (iceberg)... And we all know how that goes.