Quality during Design

About Quality during Design

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-making, and quality thinking, along with conversations with cross-functional experts in the series A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts. If you want to design products people love for less time, less cost, and a whole lot fewer headaches — this is your place. Hosted by Dianna Deeney, consultant, coach, and author of Pierce the Design Fog. Subscribe: newsletter.deeneyenterprises.com.

Publisher

Dianna Deeney

Category

business · business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Mar 2021

Latest episode

27 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

202 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Aug 2026

   The Cracks Between Good Designs, with Mike Fedorov (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

   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 inside a single design. It’s the coordination layer: the seams between teams, systems, and the data that no one remembers how to work. He walks through a transformation that stalled for months, what AI can actually do to close the gap, an...

2. 

   13 Aug 2026

   Decision Room Carry: Why Your Best Decisions Disappear on Monday

   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 decision room carry problem isn’t solved by better documentation or tools like Jira and decision matrices, because an assigned decision is not an authored one. The gap is cognitive: the people who must execute weren’t reasoning, stress-...

3. 

   23 Jul 2026

   From Tools to Teamwork — 200 Episodes of Rethinking Quality during Design

   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 together intentionally. In this episode The question that has guided all 200 episodes Why good engineering teams still build products that miss the mark The evolution from tools → process → people → systems The "Des...

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

3,546

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 61 / 100

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Quality

63

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

81

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