SPaMCAST 637 - Process Improvement Disconnected, Cost of Poor Quality, Essays and Conversation

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week the Cast features our essay titled, “</span><a href="https://bit.ly/38G5NWb"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Collaboration - Disconnected</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.” The improvement imperative is driven by the need to stay competitive at a holistic level. One would expect that continuous process improvement or continuous improvement would be discussed earnestly at every staff meetings at every level of an organization, and at every meeting. It isn’t.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jon M. Quigley returns with an installment of the Alpha and Omega of Product Development.  Jon and I completed an arc on product quality with a discussion of the cost of poor quality. </span></p> <p><strong>The Software Process and Measurement Cast is a proud media sponsor of the DevOps Online Summit. </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not to put too fine a point on it, one of the best ways to get your message heard is to speak.  The crew at the DevOps Online Summit provides a phenomenal platform to network with fellow practitioners from all over the world. Start the journey to speaking at the DevOps Online Summit 2021 by submitting at https://bit.ly/3syp2c5</span></p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;"><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/20727/width_100_DevOps_Online_Summit.png" alt="" width="100" height="100" /><br /></span><a href= "https://bit.ly/3syp2c5"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://bit.ly/3syp2c5</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;"><br /> <br /></span></p> <p><strong>Re-Read Saturday News </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On November 28, 2020, we began the reread of</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/36d6Zz2"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Great Big Agile, An OS for Agile Leaders</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">by Jeff Dalton. Since jumping over quite a few chapters last week I have