Considering the Alternatives
To see why we should favor changing scope over the other options, suppose we are part of a team that has just finished the ninth month of what we expected to be a 12-month project. At this point everyone realizes that the full scope of the project cannot be delivered on schedule with the current team. What are our choices?
Cut Quality?
Perhaps we should cut some quality corners—skip a little testing, leave a few bugs unfixed. Reducing quality is rarely explicitly considered, yet it is often the go-to option when the project is running behind. If we reduce quality, perhaps by altering our definition of what bugs must be fixed before we ship and perhaps by skipping the stress testing, in our scenario we may succeed ...
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