Enduring Ideas in the Realm of Software
How do you gradually shift responsibility for a system to the customer? How do you reduce the risk of a customer inheriting a system they can’t sustain? Rather than outsourcing, you can consider “insourcing.” In Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (2nd Edition) (The XP Series), Kent Beck writes that insourcing is where you gradually replace …
Adding people to late projects makes them later. This can be counter-intuitive. In Requirements-Led Project Management: Discovering David’s Slingshot, by Suzanne Robertson and James Robertson explain how adding people to late projects makes them later. The Least Knowledgeable People Prevent the Most Knowledgeable People from WorkingAccording to Suzanne and James, adding people to a late …