Building Quality Products – Stacy Kirk on The Product Experience

Bugs are the bane of existence for product teams. They frustrate our users, ruin the best-laid plans, and screw up our sprints. Figuring out how to deal with them is a problem for many teams: do we have good acceptance criteria? How do we test? What's better, unit tests or user acceptance testing? Who has time for all this? And when is it good enough?  Stacy Kirk, the founder/CEO of both QualtityWorks and Posture, joins us to talk about how to do QA the right way.

In this episode, sponsored by Amplitude, listen to learn about:

• How to use QA well
• Building quality products
• Diversity in Tech
• Getting your team to work together

Quote of the Episode

Quality really is defined by the value that you provide to customers, bugs or no bugs. You can have (and we know a lot of apps have) so many bugs, but are just still so valuable to the end user – so that's how we go about making our bar: can we make the customer happy?

Related Links

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• QualityWorks
• Posture
• BDD vs TDD vs ATDD feature
• Digital Diversity Network

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