Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”
by Leslie Ekas, Scott Will
Why Is Stop the Line Hard?
Does the following scenario ring a bell? “We started to have build problems, but when we stopped to fix the build problems, it became evident that our build software needed to be updated, which was going to take more time than we had. The new build software also required an update to our operating system, but that required that other software on the machine be updated as well. Of course, if we were going to go to the trouble of updating all the required software on our build machines, we needed to consider an upgrade to our hardware as well.” When addressing interrelated problems, the number of problems can quickly feel insurmountable, and stopping the line to fix any one problem might feel like a useless drop in the ...
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