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> Instead of controlling for budgets and delivery dates, control for focus and outcome value. Then you can manage the money as investments in teams delivering o
by Chris2048 3y ago
> Instead of controlling for budgets and delivery dates, control for focus and outcome value. Then you can manage the money as investments in teams delivering outcomes, instead of budgets for projects.
Maybe if you sell to end users. If you have clients with SLAs, requirements etc and legal penalties for missing them, not working to delivery dates isn't going to work. Even in teams with projects, ensuring deadlines are met is still tricky.
- Terretta 3y agoSee my sibling reply on projects versus time-boxes and CI/CD of outcomes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37100090 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37100090 Telling me "it isn't going to work" is why I call this approach "heresy". By contrast, I've observed across every size firm from 1 to 150,000, it does.