#Solo - How OrgDebt Can Make You Fail At Quality Engineering

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A solo episode dedicated to the decryption, articulation and impact of organizational debt, or OrgDebt, in the QE Unit https://qeunit.com

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Building software with technical debt is painful. Every change is becoming slower due to the accumulated waste and complexity - until the organization becomes unable to evolve the software.

When hitting a wall, organizations destroy the house they have been paying for the last years. They usually start another software effort from zero, transforming the initial investment into an entire waste of money.

Technical debt is a widely known concept in engineering. It represents the iceberg of issues organizations accumulate over time from their implementation decisions.

Achieving Quality Engineering revolves around the 5 pillars of MAMOS: Methods, Architecture, Management, Organization and Skills. Debt is everywhere, and OrgDebt is a fundamental entropy to contain within Management, Organization and Skills.

In this episode, we cover first OrgDebt to then identify how to detect and to prevent it leveraging Quality Engineering:

Organizational Debt is more than the sum of shortcuts
Lack of shared mission and purpose dispersing the effort
Lack of alignment with the overall system is waste
Lack of valuable interactions will make you miss the point
Lack of necessary capabilities and skills will slow you down
Lack of value creation will make the organization hit a wall

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00:00 Introduction

01:10 The definition of OrgDebt: organizational debt

02:52 Methods: Debt Methodologies

03:47 Management: Mission, purpose and alignment debt

06:57 Organization: The lack of interactions

08:10 Skills: Lack of skills

09:25 The impact is sooner or later to yell at a wall

11:10 Quality Engineering leaders must act

Content mentioned

MAMOS, The Quality Engineering Framework, QE Unit, Antoine Craske.

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