MOC: [[System Thinking]]
From a conversation with [[Antoine Dudal]]
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At Qonto, the bottom line is to prioritize quality over lead time. It's quite contrarian with some other things I've seen before in many startups, where 'Done is better than perfect' is a saying.
From my work in customer support, I value quality but the #1 priority is the reply time. Answering a customer quickly also improves the quality of their experience.
A few thoughts:
- I heard somewhere (probably from [[Chris Williamson]]'s podcast) that shipping fast is critical because it accelerates your learning speed through feedback loops. It resonated a lot with me personally.
- From [[John Doerr]] OKR's guidelines, I think a good compromise is to have a speed (or quantitative) goal in mind, coupled with some minimum standard of quality you won't derogate to.
**Question:** Is there an universal rule here, or does it depend 100% of the topic at hand?
![[Quality vs quantity for reading books]]