Saturday, 24 November 2007

Keep your options open

Lately, I'm talking a lot about maintaining options and deferring commitment by making small, reversible decisions quickly to build momentum and delaying irreversible decisions until the last responsible moment.

Chris Matts gives us some good advice:

  • Options have value.
  • Options expire.
  • Never commit early unless you know why.
(Listen to Chris talk about real options and agile software delivery ).

Recently, we've also started taking a set-based approach to find solutions to a few tricky problems. So far this has worked really well.



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