How we try to speed up IT projects and why it doesn’t work
The methods we use in the short term to speed up a project, slow it down in the long term
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. Rick Cook
Code not being used by users is worth nothing, you no return on investment for code that is in development.
People get lost in the fog of a project and forget the purpose isn’t to deliver the project on time, it’s to create software which helps the business.
No one cares about technology, its an aid to doing your job, quicker or automating it. To get a return on this investment of creating software, you need employees using it.
Until the code is in production, it has no value to the business
Releasing quickly
Code should be measure not by how fast it’s written but by how fast working software makes it into production.
