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August 2005 Cutter Benchmark Review: The "Anti-Productivity" Argument

by Michael C. Mah

"If you want higher quality, build less stuff." That, in essence, is what Cutter Business Technology Council Fellow Tom DeMarco once said about a daring strategy for quality improvement: reduce quantity. Tom went on to say, "Whatever it is that your organization makes, make less of it. Make less, and choose much more carefully what you make."¹

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