Archive for April, 2009

Quality Vs Speed

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Recently topics are quality, quality AND QUALITY. So what is quality about? And what got speed involved? This is the logic I came out:

*Fast speed = bad quality BUT does it mean
^slow speed = good quality?

I do agree that more complex work (in this case work refers to edm) requires more time. The question again: How long is enough? If given 1 day, do you compromise that its error free? We should be constantly improving everyday - if 6 months ago, you took 1 day to produce edm, 6 months later, you are still taking 1 day, then something is very wrong. Are you being efficient and productive?

Have you play Bejeweled (in Facebook) ?
Work is just like playing Bejeweled, you need to focus and concentrate on the game. At the same time, you are competing against 1 minute time frame. Its not purely clearing 3 similar gems, but rather, how can you create more gems and achieving high score. Can you relate this with work? (Staying focus and create more edms and achieving 0% errors?)

To standardise, I have came out with a Citi’s edm guideline. Lets use a standard font size/type on the contents+footer area. Lets hope with all these in place, defect rates will decrease.
Click here

Footnote:

*Fast speed = turnover within 2-3 hours.
bad quality = at least 1-2 mistakes

^slow speed = at least 1 day
good quality = no  mistakes