Cultural Principles in Software Engineering

Never Let your boss/client cause you to write poor quality code
People must feel that their work is appreciated
Continuing Education is the responsibility of each team member
Participation of client is most critical factor in Software Quality
Your Greatest challenge is to share vision of final product with client
Continuous improvement in your software development process is possible and essential
Software Development procedures can help establish a common culture of best practices
Quality is number one priority, long term productivity is a natural consequence of quality
Ensure that its a peer not client who find defects in Software Source Code
A key to software quality is to repeatedly go through all development steps except coding
Controlling error reports and change requests is essential to quality and maintenance
If you measure what you do, you can learn to do it better
Do what seems reasonable, don’t base yourself on dogma
You cannot change everything at same time, identify changes that will reap most benefits and start to implement those as soon as possible