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> …measure twice/cut once, waterfall. All QC was after the fact…

Doesn’t “measure twice” imply some QC is being done before the “cutting”?



Sort of.

They basically had "Quality" as a part of their entire culture. Each person was expected to do their part in the Quality ecosystem.

The spec process could take months; years, even.

Once a spec was written, it became Holy Writ. It could only be changed or amended with buckets of blood.

The projects tended to be about 50% spec, 20% initial development, 30% post QC, and then, 50% fixing the problems found by QC.

We tended to deliver software that people wanted, eighteen months ago. It worked to spec, but didn't do much else.




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