Bottleneck Confidence
Have you ever wondered why we have QA? I know, that's a weird question. When we look at what QA does, we are really asking them to do something we haven't done for ourselves: we ask for their vote of confidence. Consider the situation we put them in. We ask QA to review our application and tell us if there are any issues with it. We don't necessarily always tell them what we changed. If we tell them what we changed, hey don't always know how to test it properly, so instead, our founded confidence in them becomes, what I call, Bottleneck Confidence. Bottleneck Confidence Bottleneck Confidence is really just that, confidence that is restricted and not complete. This means that our confidence is throttled and limited to what we truly can achieve. So the question becomes: why do we need QA? Well, if we continue asking them to work in the same vein, then, we don't need QA. If we ask them to fill a different role, and allow us to reach our full potential, then they ...