A Quest for Up-Front Quality

Today I'd like to point you to the presentation slides of a talk I gave at this year's Gilb Seminar on Culture Change in London. 

You'll find the file if you go to this PlanetProject page on Zero Defects, navigate to principle P6 and click the link titled "presentation".

The title was "A Quest for Up-Front Quality".

Short outline:

• Why I wanted to have a rigorous QA effort for the first steps of a real-life project
  
• What I did to achieve this (Tom Gilb's Extreme Inspections, aka Agile Inspections, aka Specification Quality Control (SQC))
  
• What the outcomes were, in terms of both quality and budget (with detailed data)
  
• What the people said about the effort
  
• What the lessons learned are
  

If you want to see truely amazing results for one of the most effective methods of software development history, don't miss the slides. Any questions? Just ask!

The talk was warmly welcomed by the great Value-Thinkers of the seminar, special thanks to Ryan Shriver, Allan Kelly, Giovanni Asproni, Niels Malotaux, Matthew Leitch, Jerry Durant, Jenny Stuart, Lars Ljungberg, Renze Zijlstra, Clifford Shelley, Lorne Mitchell, Gio Wiederhold, Marilyn Bush, Yazdi Bankwala, and all others I forgot to mention.