Building A Tech Radar For Quality at Speed

QE Unit
6 min readFeb 24, 2022

Technology addiction is dangerous.

I know what I’m talking about. I was an addict focusing on technology for technology, influenced by the engineering ecosystem I was in.

I then moved on, starting to ask longer questions.

The shift went from “Does it work?” to “Does it work for our business, today and tomorrow?” and “What’s the minimal solution?”.

We explored the key reasons to contain the technology entropy in “More Technology, More Problems”; this article focuses on the how.

This article shares how to build a technology radar for Quality at Speed streamlining your business, technology and organization.

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Start by acting the Quality Engineering way

The quickest solution would be to start cataloging all technologies in use. But minimal preparation makes the difference.

The following guidelines will get you off a right start:

  • Use automation wherever possible to retrieve technologies in use;
  • Be collaborative to build adhesion and obtain what’s out of scanners;
  • Identify meta-data such as…

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