When Komatsu decided to go after Catapiliers market, the set quality as their first strategic intent. They then made sure that later strategic steps were beholden to that earlier one.
XP/Agile manafesto emphasized 'working software' which in theory was to have a similar intent.
But the problem with manafestos is that people package them and sell them.
Agile manafesto signatories like Jeff Sutherland selling books with titles promising twice the code in half the time don't help.
OSS has a built in incentive to maintain quality, at least for smaller projects.
Companies could, but unfortunately management practices that make people quite successful becoming habits that are hard to change even when they want to.
Hopefully these big public incidents start to make the choice to care about quality and easier sell.
The point being is that quality is still an important thing for profit oriented companies, but it is easy to drop it and only notice it after it is too late.
Showing that it aligns with long term goals is possible, but getting people to do so is harder.
When Komatsu decided to go after Catapiliers market, the set quality as their first strategic intent. They then made sure that later strategic steps were beholden to that earlier one.
XP/Agile manafesto emphasized 'working software' which in theory was to have a similar intent.
But the problem with manafestos is that people package them and sell them.
Agile manafesto signatories like Jeff Sutherland selling books with titles promising twice the code in half the time don't help.
OSS has a built in incentive to maintain quality, at least for smaller projects.
Companies could, but unfortunately management practices that make people quite successful becoming habits that are hard to change even when they want to.
Hopefully these big public incidents start to make the choice to care about quality and easier sell.
The point being is that quality is still an important thing for profit oriented companies, but it is easy to drop it and only notice it after it is too late.
Showing that it aligns with long term goals is possible, but getting people to do so is harder.