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From: pdsmith@bbn.com (Peter D. Smith)
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Subject: Re: Experiences with Defect Prevention
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Date: 29 Jun 90 22:17:44 GMT
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In article <7669@fy.sei.cmu.edu> bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson) writes:
>For low maturity software organizations (about 85% of us), *simple* solutions,
>appropriately applied, will bring about *big* improvements.  You got to
>solve the simple problems before the fancy tools and techniques can provide
>you any real improvements in quality and productivity.
>
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I concur.  The time to resolve bugs, and as a side effect the number of bugs
found where I used to work dropped after the QA department started to list,
in every weekly staff meeting, who had bugs over 30 days old.  Our average
responce time dropped from over a year (sic!) to two weeks.

					Peter D. Smith