Comments for Tradeoff: Go For Quality at http://www.stevenmsmith.com , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.stevenmsmith.com Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:17:26 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.stevenmsmith.com/my-blogs/systems/tradeoff-go-for-quality.html#comment-84 I appreciate you for sharing your thoughts. I interpret you advocate being conscious of this general law from the beginning. As long as the long-term process improvement plan is based on sound logic rather than fantasy, the concept makes sense to me. - Steve Smith Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:34:12 +0100 http://www.stevenmsmith.com/my-blogs/systems/tradeoff-go-for-quality.html#comment-83 Even if I fully agree on the approach (it's often something that I present), one trade-off can be that one of the product gain can improve the global process and thus make you gain time/cost. By thinking at his concept from the beginning, you can try to design your better product in order to increase also your process to create it - Laurent Saubusse Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:46:25 +0100 http://www.stevenmsmith.com/my-blogs/systems/tradeoff-go-for-quality.html#comment-82 Thank you for sharing that approach. I see that approach used regularly. It does enable the possibility of keeping cost and schedule the same by reducing the amount of work that needs to be done. And you are right -- it's not easy. I would recommend this approach if the customers whose opinions mattered the most agreed the integration of all the changes resulted in higher quality. - Steve Smith Mon, 26 May 2008 08:19:28 +0100 http://www.stevenmsmith.com/my-blogs/systems/tradeoff-go-for-quality.html#comment-79 A slight twist to this is: (1) improve quality (fewer errors) (2) reduce the number of features (3) keep cost and schedule the same Not easy to do though. - Dwayne Phillips Sat, 24 May 2008 09:31:15 +0100