"...quality is fastest way to get software into production"<p>Maybe, but what constitutes "quality"? What's the definition of "quality"? Back in the mid 90s, Bellcore sold something called "QMO", an all-encompassing development methodology that focused on "quality". Nowhere in the system did it define "quality", so QMO ended up as a system to call meetings, demand "artifacts" of people, and argue about what "quality meant.<p>Yes, software development is misunderstood. So is "quality". In fact, it's so misunderstood as to defy any understanding at all.