--- title: "Some new blogs and a story of quantity vs. quality" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/26/some-new-blogs-and-a-story-of-quantity-vs-quality.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/26/some-new-blogs-and-a-story-of-quantity-vs-quality.html" published: "2004-01-26T19:29:00" updated: "2004-01-26T19:29:00" tags: ["Blogging"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "I've been getting more and more into reading blogs that discuss management and design rather than pure tech stuff. There are some great gems out there. Here are a few blogs I found today: Joseph Pelrine's Blog…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Some new blogs and a story of quantity vs. quality By Roy Osherove January 26, 2004 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging) **Historical article** · Originally published January 26, 2004; technical details may be outdated. I've been getting more and more into reading blogs that discuss management and design rather than pure tech stuff. There are some great gems out there. Here are a few blogs I found today: -  [Joseph Pelrine's Blog](http://www.metaprog.com/blogs/index.php) - [Incipient(thoughts)](http://bossavit.com/thoughts/) - [Software (Management) Process Improvement](http://www.estherderby.com/weblog/blogger.html) Here's a nice quote from [the last one on the list](http://www.estherderby.com/weblog/archive/2004_01_01_archive.html#107487651825857119): _"The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the "quantity" group: fifty pound of pots rated an "A", forty pounds a "B", and so on. Those being graded on "quality," however, needed to produce only one pot -albeit a perfect one - to get an "A". Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the "quantity" group was busily churning out piles of work - and learning from their mistakes - the "quality" group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay." Hmmm. Sounds sort of like iterative development and waterfall, doesn't it._ Indeed. ## More in Blogging [All posts in Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging) - Feb 5, 2004 ### [.Net Rocks live - review](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/5/net-rocks-live-review.html) - Feb 5, 2004 ### [Pasting nicely formatted code into your blog](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/5/pasting-nicely-formatted-code-into-your-blog.html) - Jan 25, 2004 ### [School Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/25/school-blogging.html) - Jan 22, 2004 ### [Reactions](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/22/reactions.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/