What Quality Really Means?

For those who don't know who is Eric Ries and have never hear of his book "The Lean Startup", wake up people,  and go get his book!

I am so fan of the Lean movement that I have not only read Eric's book (that is the founder of the Lean Movement), I actually got all the lean books out there and have eaten them (ok, not literary, but you probably have understood me!).

Do not be full by the named, it is not only for entrepreneurs. It can be applied to manufacture, software development and literally anything you wanna do. The principles are easy to follow, but this blog post is not about the book or the lean movement, it is about quality and Eric says it beautifully in his post in LinkedIn. I can get back on a summary of his book later on.

The title as always seems to be aimed at entrepreneurs, however as I have already mentioned, it can be applied to everything.
He say that "quality is really in the eye of the beholder". 
The only way to really get a higher quality outcome is by TEST our assumptions while developing whatever we are doing. Achieve quality is to give ourselves time to react to customers reactions and then fix the quality problems we didn't even notice we had.

 Instead of telling you what he said, I let you with him. Share your comments at the end if you wish.


Link for Eric Ries article

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