Scope, Resources, and Time
Back in Chapter 7, Join Us! we considered the Triple Constraint with regards to hiring. Now we’re going to use it with reference to your projects. If you want something good and fast, it’ll be expensive. If you want something good and cheap, it’ll be slow. If you want something fast and cheap, it’ll be poor quality.
As a manager, you’ll have a finite number of engineers at any given time, and you will routinely find yourself juggling your ongoing projects with the need to forge ahead with the next great thing that you should be building.
When discussing upcoming projects, you may face conflicting opinions from different departments, including your own. These particular examples are taken to an extreme—in reality ...
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