I’ve written many articles about the importance of Quality specifically in Security, Mobility and Startups. I get emails everyday from those in the QA arena telling me what a low priority Quality is at the company they work for. In light of the massive security breaches we are seeing every day and the overwhelming failure ratio of startups and the latest innovations in mobility, cloud and IoT I ask you this…

Many companies over the last 10 years have struggled to adapt to Agile and many still are in the quasi phase of trying to convert. Myself, I have been through this at least 20 times in those 10 years as a consultant and as a full-time employee. Every company implements Scrum – Agile differently to what best suits their environment, and that is the beauty of Agile true adaptability.

I lived through the first technology start-up boom and the subsequent crash that followed. Due to my success building Quality Assurance Teams in start-ups from the onset, many companies approached me and my team to assist them in their initial efforts to implement a Quality approach. I learned to ask all the right questions in order to assess their ratio of potential success and the actual importance of Quality Assurance.