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#Solo - How OrgDebt Can Make You Fail At Quality Engineering
11 minutes Posted Aug 26, 2021 at 3:00 am.
Introduction
The definition of OrgDebt: organizational debt
Methods: Debt Methodologies
Management: Mission, purpose and alignment debt
Organization: The lack of interactions
Skills: Lack of skills
The impact is sooner or later to yell at a wall
Quality Engineering leaders must act
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A solo episode dedicated to the decryption, articulation and impact of organizational debt, or OrgDebt, in the QE Unit https://qeunit.com
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Building software with technical debt is painful. Every change is becoming slower due to the accumulated waste and complexity - until the organization becomes unable to evolve the software.
When hitting a wall, organizations destroy the house they have been paying for the last years. They usually start another software effort from zero, transforming the initial investment into an entire waste of money.
Technical debt is a widely known concept in engineering. It represents the iceberg of issues organizations accumulate over time from their implementation decisions.
Achieving Quality Engineering revolves around the 5 pillars of MAMOS: Methods, Architecture, Management, Organization and Skills. Debt is everywhere, and OrgDebt is a fundamental entropy to contain within Management, Organization and Skills.
In this episode, we cover first OrgDebt to then identify how to detect and to prevent it leveraging Quality Engineering:
Organizational Debt is more than the sum of shortcuts
Lack of shared mission and purpose dispersing the effort
Lack of alignment with the overall system is waste
Lack of valuable interactions will make you miss the point
Lack of necessary capabilities and skills will slow you down
Lack of value creation will make the organization hit a wall
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Content mentioned
MAMOS, The Quality Engineering Framework, QE Unit, Antoine Craske.
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