Quality, cost and agility in the SDLC - a strategic perspective

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The DORA or Accelerate metrics empirically show that speed (or throughput) and quality (or stability) are inseparable. The adoption of the engineering capabilities in the Accelerate book also statistically correlates to better profitability, more market share, and higher customer appreciation. Despite this empirical data, many organisations still struggle to unite agility, cost and quality. This paper elaborates on these challenges to adequate agility, with higher quality and risk adjusted cost. Adopting an “Inspect & Adapt” mindset with high throughput and high stability self-improvement is the foundation to tackle these challenges.

The paper is divided in three articles, each from a different perspective:

Part 1: The Strategic Perspective: cost, risk and agile scaling.

Our expert Johan Gabriëls presents his research into this struggle in three specially written whitepapers which dive deeper into the challenges to adequate agility, with higher quality and risk adjusted cost.

Read the first part

Part 2: The Engineering Perspective: establishing fast and adequate technical feedback loops after each change.

In order to keep costs under control, generate quick and consistent business value and achieve competitive advantage, organisations that develop their software in-house need to consider quality, cost and agility from an engineering perspective.

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Part 3: The Quality Perspective: how to align test automation and QA.

Coming soon.