Re:Google’s product strategy: Make two of everything
by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @12:13PM
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> It's just a waste of productivity. Not a strategy.
Whether or not its Google's actual strategy, multiple parallel development efforts with different profiles (e.g., risk, timeline, etc.) is certainly a strategy, and one recognized in many works on lean software development.
If something is important enough to your broader business strategy, not hedging by taking multiple approaches, while devoting resources that could be expended doing that on other, less critical, efforts, may be the real waste of productivity.
Whether or not its Google's actual strategy, multiple parallel development efforts with different profiles (e.g., risk, timeline, etc.) is certainly a strategy, and one recognized in many works on lean software development.
If something is important enough to your broader business strategy, not hedging by taking multiple approaches, while devoting resources that could be expended doing that on other, less critical, efforts, may be the real waste of productivity.