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SAFE-SP · Question #65

What is critical to successfully implementing quality in a Lean-Agile environment?

The correct answer is A. Making quality everyone's responsibility. In a Lean-Agile environment, quality is built in at every stage by every team member - developers, testers, product owners, and ops alike - rather than inspected in at the end by a dedicated QA gate, making shared ownership the foundational principle. A phased-gate rollout (B)…

Built-In Quality

Question

What is critical to successfully implementing quality in a Lean-Agile environment?

Options

  • AMaking quality everyone's responsibility
  • BA phased-gate rollout
  • CSeparation of Dev and Ops
  • DComponent teams

How the community answered

(39 responses)
  • A
    92% (36)
  • B
    5% (2)
  • C
    3% (1)

Explanation

In a Lean-Agile environment, quality is built in at every stage by every team member - developers, testers, product owners, and ops alike - rather than inspected in at the end by a dedicated QA gate, making shared ownership the foundational principle. A phased-gate rollout (B) is a traditional waterfall concept that creates handoff delays and contradicts Agile's continuous flow. Separation of Dev and Ops (C) is the opposite of DevOps, which Lean-Agile explicitly promotes to eliminate silos and enable faster feedback loops. Component teams (D) create dependencies and handoffs that slow delivery and fragment accountability for end-to-end quality.

Memory tip: Think "built-in, not bolted-on" - Lean-Agile quality means everyone owns it continuously, not a single team checking it at the end.

Topics

#built-in quality#Lean-Agile culture#shared responsibility#DevOps

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