Recently I had an interesting chat with my good friend and esteemed colleague Javier Garzás (if you can read Spanish don’t miss his Blog on Agile). He is a renown Agile Coach and author in the Software Development area with an impressive CV. We were talking about a pervasive problem he encounters in a good percentage of the companies he helps to transform in Agile organisations, that of having a Quality Department, understood as the department that makes sure that everyone is working the same way in their projects across the organisation.

I have scanned August issues of Communications of the ACM and IEEE Software and I have found a couple of interesting articles that I would like to share with you: