Object Mentor Blog: Quality: It's alive! It's ALIVE!

Quality: It's alive! It's ALIVE!

Uncle Bob — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:25:00 -0600

Recently James Bach wrote a compelling post entitled Quality is Dead. As much as I’d like to agree, something interesting has just happened that tempts me to believe in a rebirth.

Just when James finally declares the death of quality, along comes the Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship. This simple document that builds upon the four values declared in the Agile Manifesto went live late on Friday evening. Now, at 3PM on Saturday over 600 people have signed it!

What does this mean? I think it means that many of us have seen what James was talking about, and are tired of it. We don’t want our users posting blogs – as James did – crying that they HATE us. We want our users to be astonished by the elegance and simplicity of our creations. We want other software developers to look under the hood and be amazed and impressed at the clarity and simplicity they see.

We want to be proud of our work!

We want our quality back!

And so a few weeks ago some software developers gathered at the offices of 8th Light in Libertyville, Illinois, and began the process of creating this manifesto. There followed a very active and passionate discussion in the Software Craftsmanship email group. The end result was this manifesto.

I encourage all of you to read and sign the manifesto, join the email group, and help bring quality back to life in the software profession.

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