I had to laugh today when a colleague, shaking his head in exasperation following a business priority corridor conversation, distilled the basic forces of software development down into a single statement:
“Right, fast and cheap: Choose any two…”
I like the way he rolled up both scope and quality into the user term right (time=fast, cost=cheap) - reminds me of Jeff Patton’s definition of user quality.
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Close to what I usually use - "Fast, Good, Cheap. Pick two...". But it's amazing how many experienced people don't understand the implications of this eternal triangle - how many times have you heard a variant on the following: "I want it working perfectly to spec, on time, but I want to use the cheapest engineers I can find to save money"....