trade-off

The trade off for any project are:

• Cheap (cost effectiveness)

• Fast (time to market)

• Good (quality)

• Done

Scope that can be changed (relate to above)

• staff

• schedule

• quality

  • reduce this to meet

• scope

To meet schedule can do:

• staff

  • Add more people late, makes it delivery later

  • need more time to acclamtise

  • need to add early on

  • increases cost

• quality

  • reduce this

  • no code reviews, less testing

• Scope

  • reduce number features

  • dont do features not required

Can only have 3 out of the 4 To manage a project is to decide what 3 qualities, and how much

• optimisation problem

  To Decide is to get feedback, data

• Destroy hope

• hope is project killer

• data shows the how well the project is going, and help predicte the outcome

  • velocity charts

  • burndown charts - draw slope, predict delivery date

  • how fast you are going

• Shows what happens when requirements change

• data brings bad news early

  • not going to meet delivery datet