The word quality has different meanings to different people in different contexts. In my experience, a lot of these conversations are oversimplified to the point of uselessness. I can build something that doesn’t work infinitely fast.
There’s two sides of quality: what the customer experiences (how well are we testing our idea against customers) and what the internal folks experience when they try to add or change what we already built (how fast can we iterate). You can define what matters, or you can tell everyone to “go fast and not worry about quality” and let them each decide what trade-offs to make independently.
The word quality has different meanings to different people in different contexts. In my experience, a lot of these conversations are oversimplified to the point of uselessness. I can build something that doesn’t work infinitely fast.
There’s two sides of quality: what the customer experiences (how well are we testing our idea against customers) and what the internal folks experience when they try to add or change what we already built (how fast can we iterate). You can define what matters, or you can tell everyone to “go fast and not worry about quality” and let them each decide what trade-offs to make independently.