act:ualise | technology

15 Nov, 2008

characterising software development chaos

Posted by: j pimmel In: uncategorized

YouTube Preview Image Several years ago I had the pleasure of watching Fuertzabruta at the Roundhouse in London, although it was only when i was recently undertaking my ScrumMaster training course that I had pause to reflect on their performance.

Other attendees recounted stories from their ongoing development, stark reminders of the reality that exists for far too many. Be it waterfall or imperfect variants of Agile, so many teams continue creating yet more failing software, building in daily increments of technical debt (to add to an already massive bag of it) and burning progressively more effort every cycle just to keep up with system frailty. There are no quick solutions, as we all know too well.

Building quality in takes quality-obsessed (yet pragmatically minded), experienced and mature teams who know how to leave egos at the door and are focused on delivering value.

To me the video performance humourously depicts the stages of a typical software project rapidly heading into the inevitable death march :)

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