Circular Quality in Circular Economy

Circular Quality in Circular Economy

Circular Economy, though applicable to all types of businesses, often gets referred in the context of retail and supply chain management. It minimizes waste by creating a closed loop of design, deploy and re-use delivering the highest utility and value for product. It is called

‘circular’ as opposed to the current ‘linear’ model since the products extend its life and theoretically never reach landfills. Gartner predicts that by 2029, circular economy will be the only economy and the benefits are not just environmental. Circular ways of working will impact profitability of businesses.

Circular Economy and Software

I see strong parallels between circular economy and the evolving practices of developing software. From cloud solutions to test automation to DevOps, software development aims to implement the circular philosophy by minimizing waste, optimizing resources and creating software in a closed loop manner. The DevOps practice as an enabler of development process is truly circular. The continuous feedback loop delivers customer feedback on the go and faster sprint cycles deliver the improvement back incrementally. On the contrary, big bang approach to redo everything increases the cost, carbon footprint, repetitive development efforts leading to inefficiencies that remain as a part…