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Re:Why Development Teams Struggle to Deliver on Time, on Bud... by Retric on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @12:42PM (#17239457)
This is often taken to an unhealthy extreme.

You need to have some fairly specific goal in mind to start doing anything. AKA are we building a PS4 game or a self driving car?

Methodologies like Scrum are all about transitioning a long term objective into short term progress. But, you really do need some fairly well thought out goal.

Further course corrections quickly get very expensive. Sort of like sailing from Virginia to Europe then deciding 1/4 of the way in on France then changing your mind to Spain at the midway point is probably fine. However, changing your mind to Australia is a much bigger deal.

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Re:Why Development Teams Struggle to Deliver on Time, on Bud... by makmanalp on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @02:23PM (#17240571)
Agreed! Nothing I disagree with here. But last minute itinerary changes from France to Australia back to France again point to a larger, more systematic problems IMHO. Perhaps it's a lack of understanding of the market and customers, or just bad management and lack of company vision - but no software process is going to fix that.
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