At one point, years into the Agile movement, we were wrapping up a very difficult meeting and I said words to the effect, "You know, we knew going into this that most of the problems in a project come from the requirements process. We have tons of studies that show that. And instead of tackling that problem, we just spent 10 years trying to get better at our part of the development process. Why did we do that? Did we think we would shame the business and management people into doing their jobs better?"
We are the drunk looking for his keys under the street light because the light is better here, instead of in the alley where we dropped them. I want another book called "the inmates are running the asylum" but about software development instead of design concerns.
At one point, years into the Agile movement, we were wrapping up a very difficult meeting and I said words to the effect, "You know, we knew going into this that most of the problems in a project come from the requirements process. We have tons of studies that show that. And instead of tackling that problem, we just spent 10 years trying to get better at our part of the development process. Why did we do that? Did we think we would shame the business and management people into doing their jobs better?"
We are the drunk looking for his keys under the street light because the light is better here, instead of in the alley where we dropped them. I want another book called "the inmates are running the asylum" but about software development instead of design concerns.