8.2.1 Agile Specification Quality Control: Shifting emphasis from cleanup to sampling defects

Traditional Inspection is often uneconomic and ties up valuable staff resources. Shifting the emphasis from cleanup (that is, from identifying defects and then removing them), to merely sampling the defect level of specifications, produces significant benefits. It enables the quality level of specifications to be determined more rapidly. Consequently, the QC can be carried out more frequently. Systems and software engineers rapidly learn, through SQC feedback, to take standards seriously, which in turn reduces defect injection. Further, by analyzing where/how the defects occur continuous process improvement can be supported.