Last week I argued that a quality gate earns its keep by where it sits — place the check just upstream of where the mistake turns expensive, and you catch defects while they're still cheap to fix. I stand by every word. So here's the failure that walks straight through all of it.

Last week I argued that a quality gate earns its keep by where it sits — place the check just upstream of where the mistake turns expensive, and you catch defects while they're still cheap to fix. I stand by every word. So here's the failure that walks straight through all of it.