
Quality during Design is the podcast for engineers and product developers navigating the messy front end of product development. Each episode gives you practical quality and reliability tools you can use during the design phase — so your team catches problems early, avoids costly rework, and ships products people can depend on.
You'll hear solo episodes on early-stage clarity, risk-based decision... more
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 202 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | CareersBusinessManagement | |||

Why do well-designed initiatives keep coming apart when they reach reality?
Mike Fedorov, who spent 26 years in supply chain and operations at Mars and Accenture and now co-leads Applied AI Labs, explains that the failure usually isn’t a bad call i... more
A cross-functional team can make what seems like a solid Friday decision, captured in minutes and agreed to in the room. Only then nothing moves on Monday.
Drawing on Agnes Carroll’s observation that “no one is carrying it,” the episode argues this... more
In this milestone episode, Dianna reflects on how the thinking evolved from quality methods to product development processes, to team dynamics, and ultimately to one central idea:
Quality during Design happens when teams align early and think togeth... more
Why do product teams stay misaligned? Jenny Wanger explains the structural problems: efficiency-focused handoff workflows, unclear strategy, and people left cleaning up decisions they didn't help make. She shares tested practices for influencing upst... more
The episode features Chad Schneider, CEO and founder of Root3 Labs, discussing prototyping as a discipline focused on answering specific questions to reduce technical, schedule, and market risk.
He explains that prototypes need not resemble the fin... more
Engineering rework often comes from unasked questions or using the wrong tool at the wrong fidelity.
Dianna outlines three common prototyping traps:
• the “ta-da” trap, where teams build polished prototypes to impress stakeholders before the conc... more
Most of the social conversation around AI is aimed at business owners and programmers, but if you’re an engineer or quality professional, you might be wondering how to actually use these tools to help with your own work processes or information pools... more
Late-breaking insights in product development aren’t caused by negligence but by a lack of structure that pulls existing team knowledge into concept discussions early, when changes are cheaper.
Dianna describes an experiment running three product b... more
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Quality during Design focuses on practical quality and reliability tools for engineers and product developers in the early design phases. Episodes center on risk-based decision-making, structured concept development, and cross-functional collaboration, with frequent emphasis on frameworks and methodologies that help teams catch problems before they become costly rework. Notable throughlines include rapid prototyping, learning-oriented design, and embedding marketing, product, and engineering perspectives early in the development process. A distinguishing feature is the recurring presentation of actionable frameworks (e.g., the Pierce the Design Fog toolkit) and cross-functional conversations that translate user needs into concrete design in... more
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