Summary
Wow. A lot of debate on quality versus velocity. I'm wondering if we're all on the same page with what we mean by quality.

What exactly is quality code? The gem that got the ball rolling was Robert C. Martin's statement...

The only way to go really fast is to write the best code you can possibly write, with the best design you can possibly give it.

Ignoring speed of development for a moment, is the best code software that:

does what my customer needs

At the end of the day, if I've missed the mark on any of these, I've failed.

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Kirk Knoernschild is a hands-on software consultant with over ten years of industry experience, and is passionate about using leading best practices to build better software. Kirk is the author Java Design: Objects, UML, and Process, published in 2002 by Addison-Wesley. He frequently contributes to various technical publications, and actively updates his personal website, www.kirkk.com, with new articles and whitepapers on a variety of software development topics. He is also the founder of www.extensiblejava.com, a growing resource of design pattern heuristics in Java.

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