#organization_as_a_system — Public Fediverse posts

"What you want is not just to fix the bugs software testers catch but figure out the reasons those bugs were created and improve you process so you create fewer bugs in the future."

https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2016/05/09/software-testing-and-the-impact-on-quality/

#Management #SoftwareDevelopment #software_testing #organization_as_a_system

"Mistake proofing in no way should limit focusing on improving the process. #mistake_proofing a process both improves it (many poka-yoke solutions make the process easier to use) and prevents an error in case you still try something wrong. So I see the automated tests as a way to serve as a backstop, in case the process improvement you made to the #softwaredevelopment process failed in some form."

https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2010/05/19/mistake-proofing-deployment-of-software-code/

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"Like most management concepts how it is applied varies tremendously. If one just uses some tools that are part of the “Six Sigma tool kit” (mostly tools from TQM and the like) then you might improve bad #management only marginally.

But if you read the work of Roger Hoerl, Soren Bisgaard, Forrest Breyfogle III… and learn and apply what they talk about as #Six_Sigma you will definitely have to address bad management practices..."

https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/03/15/six-sigma-wont-fix-bad-management/

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Some try to implement lean ideas without properly setting the stage by instituting policy’s such as Virginia Mason’s no layoff policy. Lean ideas will not work, as they should, without changes to the way the organization makes decisions. Failing to understand this factor is one reason some organizations are frustrated with the results they experience when trying to apply #lean_thinking.

https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2005/08/17/going-lean-in-health-care/

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