The most important thing to deliver, the last thing to do

Lots of organization, if not all, tend to preach the same mantra, "Quality is our no. 1 priority", "We held quality as the upmost regard", quality this, quality that, yada yada.. However, more often than not, the times to 'uphold' this quality thingy is usually at the end of the lifecycle. Not just that, it has the least time allocated to it! Irony, isn't it?

For instance, a product planning goes into, let say, hardware phase, maybe by the EE guys, 4 weeks, then the software developed for that product, 4 weeks, then the testing phase, 2 weeks. Suddenly, when the real project started, EE guys screw up something or maybe software guys screw up something, taking more than the weeks they are allocated to. "Oh, never mind. Let just reduce the testing phase to 1.5 weeks." Wow, how convenient is that! You are expecting us to deliver the same result from a 2 weeks time frame, in a much reduced time. Yet you say you have the quality is our no.1 priority?

Adding salt to the injury, if any issue found in the product, who's the first party to be asked for responsibility? No prize for guessing. "It's our fault we introduce that bug, but hey, it's the testing team that should have discover that before the customers."

Oh my. SSDD. Same sh*t, different day.