Itamar Turner-Trauring, Incremental results: how to succeed at large software projects:
- Faster feedback…
- Less unnecessary features…
- Less cancellation risk…
- Less deployment risk…
👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 read the whole thing, Itamar’s tale is well told.
Consider: incremental approaches consist of taking a large scope and finding smaller, still-valuable scopes inside of it. Risk is 100% proportional to scope. Time-to-deliver grows as scope grows. Cancellation and deployment risk grow as time-to-deliver grows. It’s not quite math, but it is easy to demonstrate on a whiteboard. In case you happen to need to work with someone who wants large scope and low risk and low time-to-delivery.
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