Ep. 46 | BALANCE OF QUALITY: Nikhil Nambiar On Balancing Business Decisions and Quality Of Development (Part 1)

Today is the first of a two-part series of The Agile Coach, where Vivek Khattri welcomes a former colleague, Nikhil Nambiar. Nikhil was a former Lead Technical Instructor in the Agile Coach and is now a Senior Consultant for Slalom Consulting. He will be sharing a bit of his background today and will talk about what Agile means to him, and the importance of quality in product development. HIGHLIGHTS Nikhil’s work at Slalom Nikhil on working on code What agile means to Nikhil Bugs and businesses Ensuring quality in development QUOTES Nikhil: “I think there's a large perception of how developers view agile people is most likely because we have had poor Scrum Masters and poor product owners, or a lack of quality of resources, or people in those roles, brings about certain impressions.” Nikhil: “So when I'm when we are developing things, a lot of times it is easy to get caught up in the details and to go into different rabbit holes, because the technology being a knowledge-based profession, especially for engineering, yeah, you can quickly start spiraling out into trying to make things perfect.” Nikhil: “My opinion is that if you truly want to move quickly, you are going to have issues with your application. And that is something that you need to accept as normal.” Nikhil: “even though, yeah, the fact is that there are going to be issues, that does not mean that as developers, we shouldn't be improving the quality of our application, our overarching goal still needs to be that we need to deliver high-quality solutions in a timely manner.” Vivek: “I've been a product person, and we don't need a perfect architecture, we don't need perfectly clean code, we just need something to put it out there.” Learn more about Nikhil in the link below: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nambiarnikhil/ If you enjoy The Agile Coach and are interested in learning more, you can check us out at the link below: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-agile-coach-llc