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Will Quality Eat up the U.S. Lead in Software?

If U.S. software companies don't pay moreattention to quality, they could kiss their business good-bye. Both India andBrazil are developing a world-class software industry. Their weapon is qualityand one of their jobs is to attract the top U.S. quality specialists whosevoices are not listened to in their country.

Already, of the world's 12 software houses thathave earned the highest rating in the world, seven are in India. That's largelybecause they have used new methodologies rejected by American softwarespecialists. For example, for decades, quality specialists, W. Edwards Demingand J. M. Juran had urged U.S. software companies to change their attitudes toquality. But their quality call mainly fell on deaf ears in the U.S. -but not inJapan. By the 1970s and 1980s, Japan was grabbing market share with better,cheaper products. They used Deming's and Juran's ideas to bring down the costof good quality to as little as 5% of total production costs. In U.S.factories, the cost of quality then was 10 times as high: 50%. In software, itstill is.

Watts S. Humphrey spent 27 years at IBM headingup software production and then quality assurance. But his advice was seldompaid attention to. He retired from IBM in 1986. In 1987, he worked out a systemfor assessing and improving software quality. It has proved its value time andagain. For example, in 1990 the cost of quality at Raytheon Electronics Systemswas almost 60% of total software production costs. It fell to 15% in 1996 andhas since further dropped to below 10%.

Like Deming and Juran, Humphrey seems to bewining more praises overseas than at home. The India government and severalcompanies have just founded the Watts Humphrey Software Quality Institute atthe Software Technology Park in Chennai, India.

Let's hope that U.S. lead in software will notbe eaten up by its quality problems.

EXERCISE:

1. what country has more highest-ratingcompanies in the world than any other country has?

A) Germany.

B) The U.S.

C) Brazil

D) India

2. Which of the following statements aboutHumphrey is true?

A) He is now still an IBM employer.

B) He has worked for IBM for 37 years.

C) The US pays much attention to his qualityadvice.

D) India honors him highly.

3. By what means did Japan grab its largemarket share by the 1970s and the 1980s?

A) Its products were cheaper in price andbetter in quality.

B) Its advertising was most successful.

C) The US hardware industry was lagging behind.

D) Japan hired a lot of India softwarespecialists.

4.What does the founding of the Watts HumphreySoftware Quality Institute symbolize?

A) It symbolizes the US determination to moveahead with its software

B) It symbolizes the India ambition to take thelead in software.

C) It symbolizes the Japanese efforts to solvethe software quality problem.

D) It symbolizes the Chinese policy onimporting software.

5.What is the writer worrying about?

A) Many US software specialists are working forJapan.

B) The quality problem has become a worldwideproblem.

C) The US will no longer be the first softwareplayer in the world.

D) India and Japan are joining hands to competewith the US.

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