July 2013
Intermediate to advanced
248 pages
5h 22m
English
book
Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior
by Tom DeMarco, Peter Hruschka, Tim Lister, Steve McMenamin, James Robertson, Suzanne Robertson
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38. Project Sluts
A tendency to take on too much hurts the organization’s velocity and results in lowered net effectiveness. But the temptation can be irresistible. . . .
In this era of cost-cutting and staff reductions, there is an emerging consensus—at least among IT professionals—that companies aren’t building enough new software, thus missing opportunities for real strategic advantage. If you’re part of this consensus, consider for a moment the exact inverse of that idea: Maybe you’re building too much software.
There seems to be a twenty-first century imperative that everything has to be done yesterday. If speed matters so much, one obvious trade-off is to buy speed by reducing load. This plain, common-sense approach unfortunately flies ...
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