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Thursday, October 13, 2005Agile Scope-Creep and How to Detect It
Martin Fowler’s Bliki: FivePoundBag. I had to laugh at this apt characterization of the danger of scope creep and how it is overcome by the operational-level, week-by-week planning at the heart of eXtreme Programming (and Agile methods that have followed). First, I have seen that work on operational development (though in my case it was through preserving the weekly build and user-test schedule and not allowing last-minute changes to the code base). Secondly, it reminds me that my M.Sc project dissertation approach was a definite failure at scope management, one that I needed to have recognized and addressed 4–5 months earlier instead of well-beyond the point of no return. I haven’t fully internalized that lesson. I am currently operating week-to-week and it is still heavily randomizable activity. Solo processes, in my case, are not trustworthy as committed efforts. I am also girding up for a real development project and we’ll see if I can manage not to do it my habitual way, but with early scope management and reality-tracking. Sounds good, right? I have no clue. Really. Cross-posted from Numbering Peano. I don't know why I put it there [;<) Update: I mangled the very first sentence and had to fix it. Comments: Post a Comment |
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