Quality Debt: Is Your Project Going Bankrupt?

Every decision made during the course of a project can affect the quality of the final product.  Compromises in functionality, design, or implementation invariably come with a cost, which must be paid. Without an adequate measure of the debt a product is carrying, no strategy to repay it can be formulated, and the project may ultimately become bankrupt, affecting your business case, your users’ productivity, and your organization’s bottom line. Taking from the concept of technical debt, Jordan Setters gives it a quality twist. “Quality debt” is the cost in time and money paid by the system's users through productivity lost due to inefficient functionality. Learn how to measure, track, and prioritize this debt. Discover ways to manage your quality debt and how to organize development to pay back the interest and principal as soon as possible. Take back an approach for using quality debt as a tool to inform project stakeholders of both the costs and the added business value of their decisions and choices.