- From: Daði Ingólfsson <dadi@hugur.is>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:49:19 -0000
- To: "'extremeprogramming@yahoogroups.com'" <extremeprogramming@yahoogroups.com>
-----Original Message----- From: J. B. Rainsberger [mailto:jbrains@rogers.com] Sent: 26. ágúst 2003 11:01 To: extremeprogramming@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: FW: [XP] Quality is free... >> Make me feel that spending "too much time" (in her opinion) on testing, >> refactoring and pairing would make us slip the date and that must absolutely >> not happen. In essence, she clearly indicated that she equates delivering on >> time with quality service even though the quality of the delivered product >> suffered from the intense focus on prompt delivery. Also, she does not feel >> that we should be "bothering" the customer with talk of technical quality. >I think that, if that is her opinion, then the only way to keep her >happy is to deliver on time. If you cannot deliver on time and with high >quality, then I see two options: > * continue to deliver on time with decreasing quality until the day >comes that poor quality makes it impossible for you to deliver on time, >then start working for someone else > * start working for someone else now I will most likely take the first option but try over time to have more of a dialogue about these issues rather than the discussion/argument, per Senge, of the last few months. Regards, Dadi. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To Post a message, send it to: extremeprogramming@eGroups.com To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: extremeprogramming-unsubscribe@eGroups.com ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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