New survey by
Four Hundred Stuff states that 40% of CIO's and IT directors don't care about quality, or the quality of their products.
While I am not surprised its not difficult to understand.
In a past life I worked for a company, who's UK Managing Director was more concerned about hitting the deadline he has personally agreed to than ensuring that what went out was the best quality possible. His view was that the maintainence agreement was there to deal with that. Suffice to say we soon parted company....
A year or so later I was working for a major telco, who's CTO/CIO was happy for systems to be 80% complete and for the bugs and additions to be added once its live, on the assumption they had got the most important 80% and customers tolerate bugs on new systems. That was more worrying, but I've seen it more and more, senior managers assume software is buggy, and assume users accept buggy software because that is the status quo and therefore it acceptable to deliver buggy software and round we go again....
