Tag: deferred-commitment
Saturday, 24 November 2007
Keep your options open
Posted by Simon Baker
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:
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Saturday, 8 September 2007
Generalised. Prioritised. Committed.
Posted by Simon Baker
Short posts with deep wisdom from Jason Yip: Over-specialisation leads to over-sized teams . Over-specialisation means that there is no small team that has enough knowledge to accomplish any project. Prioritise to maintain options . Every feature implemented before its time removes an option to defer that feature to protect schedule. Customers aren't disappointed when you don't meet your commitments ; they're disappointed when it means they can't meet theirs.
