© NVP Software Solutions Quality and Personal Values Personal initiative has a positive impact on business success Quality focused individuals often exceed customer expectations Quality begins with personal attitudes Attitudes can be changed through awareness and effort Unless quality is internalized at the personal level, it will never become rooted in the culture of an organization. Managing for quality and performance excellence By James Robert Evans, William M. Lindsay
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With apologies to a certain Philosopher “I test therefore I am” 3 © NVP Software Solutions 2015
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1. SQA may not harm a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm. © NVP Software Testing, Sept. 23,
2. SQA must obey orders given to it by human beings (Management), except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. © NVP Software Testing, Sept. 23,
3. SQA must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law © NVP Software Solutions 2015
0. SQA may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm © NVP Software Solutions 2015
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