High-Quality Software is Possible

"Large-scale software systems can be built with very high quality, but for a steep price tag".

Developers, to achieve high quality, follow proven techniques to increase quality. These include:

• Involving the customer.
• Communicate with Customers / Users
• Prototyping to verify requirements prior to full-scale development.
• Build the Right Kind of Prototype
• Build the Right Features into a Prototype
• Build Throwaway Prototypes Quickly
• Keeping the design simple.
• Keep It Simple
• Code reviews and static code analysis.
• Inspect Code
• Hiring the best people.
• Understand the Customers' Priorities
• People Are the Key to Success

Customers (Product Managers), demand excellence but be aware of the high costs involved.