#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.
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.