Are We Going Fast Enough?
How do we know how fast we should be able to go? After all, given the current circumstances, we’re going at exactly the right speed. That’s a tautology. But is there some small thing that’s holding us back, something that’s within our control?
When tracking progress over a significant period of time, it’s naive to think that the rate of accomplishment will remain constant. The only way that’s likely to happen is if someone is managing the data to make it look constant because they think that it will reflect better on them. (See Hiding Reality.) Things change. People and teams of people cycle through better times and tougher times. On something as hard to measure as software development, even the measurement is unlikely ...
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