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Designing for Failure

If at first you don’t succeed, make it a quality problem

Jill Marie Holslin/Courtesy OLBSD

Taran March @ Quality Digest
Thu, 11/14/2019 - 12:03
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So it seems the contentious wall along our southern border, variously known as the Trump wall or the Mexico-United States barrier, isn’t meeting requirements. Walls keep people in; walls keep people out. They serve as backdrops for graffiti. But aside from fulfilling the last item, this wall might more accurately be called a solution for the wrong problem. Time, and past time, for quality assurance folks to step in.

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Submitted by Bill Pound on Thu, 11/14/2019 - 09:36

The Wall

So am I to understand that you prefer absolute rule for the purpose of building walls?  We don't live in that country.

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Submitted by William Fiske (not verified) on Thu, 11/14/2019 - 10:44

In reply to The Wall by Bill Pound

Wall building

For all the praise lavished on the Great Wall of China for its strength and longevity in the article, the GWC still failed.  Why"  The gatekeepers were bribed.  Human factors were as great a problem then as they are now, but with different culprits.

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