I think the most memorable phrases that came out of XPDay will be those used by Tim Lister in his keynote speech. First, dead fish of failure describes the festering smell those projects have which are setup to fail from the beginning. Second, imagine your project is a cruise liner or cargo freighter. When it set sail it contained lots of cargo or user stories. As the cruise progresses the act of descoping user stories from a sprint or iteration is like throwing cargo overboard. I wonder how many projects have reached their destination with empty holds?
Monday, 28 November 2005
Dead fish and cargo overboard
Posted by Simon Baker
