I recently quit my job and joined a startup that is trying to secure their first round of financing. No money, therefore no management, so I'm having a blast. There is just a small group of engineers that know what has to be done and work hard to deliver. Hopefully we won't end up like the underwear gnomes Phase 1) collect underwear Phase 3) profit
Selling management on quality is a tough sell, I have found if they perceive things as working, then everything "must" be fine. When I discovered our test coverage was lacking and proposed ways to improve it, the proposals fell on deaf ears. When I proceeded to implement one of the proposals (without company support) it uncovered nineteen new page faults yet it only increase code coverage seven percent. You think with a fatal defect density that high it would inspire a quality initiative. Instead management was more concerned that it made them look bad and still would not endorse the other proposals. This was very disappointing and I left the company shortly after. Is there a company out there that wants to build quality software and is willing to put in a real effort?
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I recently quit my job and joined a startup that is trying to secure their first round of financing. No money, therefore no management, so I'm having a blast. There is just a small group of engineers that know what has to be done and work hard to deliver. Hopefully we won't end up like the underwear gnomes
Phase 1) collect underwear
Phase 3) profit
Selling management on quality is a tough sell, I have found if they perceive things as working, then everything "must" be fine. When I discovered our test coverage was lacking and proposed ways to improve it, the proposals fell on deaf ears. When I proceeded to implement one of the proposals (without company support) it uncovered nineteen new page faults yet it only increase code coverage seven percent. You think with a fatal defect density that high it would inspire a quality initiative. Instead management was more concerned that it made them look bad and still would not endorse the other proposals. This was very disappointing and I left the company shortly after. Is there a company out there that wants to build quality software and is willing to put in a real effort?