7 Making R&D Transparent and Predictable: Handling the Soft Parts of Software
Anyone that has ever worked with tech teams has experienced at least once the dreaded infinite project. Those projects act like Zeno’s paradoxes: whenever you try to figure out the project’s status, it seems to be in the last 20% of the work declared in the previous status check, as Figure 7.1 illustrates. Deadlines keep getting postponed and delayed, sometimes even after they have passed. You find out that even more people are needed to achieve something simpler than what the team initially agreed to.
FIGURE 7.1 Zeno’s paradox of the ...
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