Realizing Quality

I think Quality Goal can only be achieved if greed for easy money is controlled..

How does an employee make easy money? By not doing his job honestly.

You are paid for your job. You accepted the job with the conditions laid down upon you by your company. You were dying to get a job. But now when you have one, you don't respect it. What you do! You come to office, waste your time and your colleagues' too. Do personal work on cost of your company. Okay fine! But at the end of the day please do the job for which you are hired. A designer is supposed to make a robust architecture. He does some copy paste from an old project, do minor tweakings and here is the architecture which is claimed to be the only feasible solution, and that our architect spen many sleepless nights to come out with this master piece.

A developer is supposed to code a module. He also use the C&P technology, check-in the code and goes for a smoke. No code review, no unit testing... Who cares! If this will not work we will see in testing phase..why bother now!

Everywhere, in every phase, in every activity there is this casual approach and seapage of quality. So finally by the end of project lifecycle all quality seeps out and nothing is left for the customer to smile about.

This is easy money. When we don't do our job for which we are paid for. When we play video games on our workstations instead of thinking of ways how can we improve the workproducts. When we fill wrong timesheets to hide our theft of precious company time and declare we spent long hours in finding solutions for the project when in reality we were flirting with another colleague. When after doing all this, the paycheque is credited to out bank account at the month end, that is easy money.

Only if we start feeling sense of responsibility towards our profession and behave honestly at our workplace, and doing our part with utmost sincerity, then we can realize the goal of quality.

How we behave at our workplace denotes our character.