Chris Donnan : Programming - Brooklyn Style
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Posted Agile Development, Software Project Management on Sunday, October 16th, 2005.
“Project managers have four variables that they can adjust when managing
cost and quality, but not scope. Prioritize features, but don’t specify in the
contract the fixed set of features to be delivered. Move from a fixed scope to a
negotiable scope*: By delivering high priority features first, it is likely that you
deliver most of the business value long before the customer’s wish list is
completed.”
An excellent excerpt from : Lean Software Development (PDF)
This is just so important. The Agile school is of thought is just so spot on here. It is just so important to be able to get software out the door to the end users in an iterative and incremental fashion. It is just stated so nicely here - there are 4 parts time, quality, cost and scope. You must simply order the features - the rest is REALLY fixed anyhow - weather or not the stakeholders WANT the scope to be fixed or not is just not really important - it really CAN’T be (that well at least).
Anyhow - good snippet.
-CD
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