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When cross-functional teams have competing definitions of quality and speed

Our development team says we need to move faster and skip some documentation to meet deadlines, but those of us in QA know this creates problems down the line that we'll have to fix. Management wants both speed and quality but won't acknowledge that's not always possible with current resources.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Different roles within a system hold pieces of a larger truth that cannot be reconciled without acknowledging resource constraints everyone knows but no one will name.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Fairness — what every civilization concluded?”

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