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Why is a Quality Culture Important?
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Organizations that foster growth and learning towards quality usually experience less employee frustration, less employee turnover, and more customer success. Employees working in a strong quality culture become more engaged in improving the tasks and processes they perform every day, which in turn, improves motivation, loyalty, and commitment to quality.

"The most amazing thing about a culture is that once it’s strong, it’s self-replicating." - Kim Scott
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How to Use the Model
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This is not a blueprint. The model provides a framework that teams can use to drive discussion on where they may want to grow in their efforts towards quality. It is a model that can be used to chart a course for the team, create alignment with management, or secure organizational support for improvement.
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The best way to use the model is to simply do a team self-evaluation (this will also help vet the work), and then determine if there is an area (or areas) where the team wants to try to improve. Incorporate related work items (if needed) into the backlog, and revisit the goals along with the other backlog items during retrospectives.
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The important point here is that the true outcome of any self-assessment model assessment isn't what level you are - it’s the list of things you need to work on to improve. Your current “level” is merely a piece of intermediate work to help you determine skills or capabilities you want to acquire next.
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Any model, is a simplification: wrong but hopefully useful. Sometimes even a crude model can help you figure out what the next step is to take, but if your needed mix of capabilities varies too much in different contexts, then this form of simplification isn't likely to be worthwhile
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Try stuff. See what works. Learn.
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