When forced to choose, quality wins out over speed seven out of 10 times according to a survey of over 600 IT professionals conducted by OverOps, a vendor that helps identify and remediate software issues. In the real world, the choice is not stark. The New Stack used data not included in 2020 edition of “The State Software Quality” to look at the implications of having a bias towards releasing software quickly.
People with a bias towards speed are faster. Twenty-eight percent of those with a preference for speed release new features at least daily while the quality-loving cohort only does so 17% of the time. The consequence is that 71% of the “speed” respondents’ organizations encounter critical or customer-impacting issues in production at least once a month, while 53% of everyone else says likewise.
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