Decisions drive implementations!
I grew up in a time where information was hard to come by. Generating information was seen as a valuable exercise because information was so limited. The first software development methodology I learned was the Waterfall model. One of the key focus areas for Waterfall was documentation. However, there was a limit to what value documentation/information could provide. In our enthusiasm to create information, we actually went down to an extreme where too much project information was becoming a roadblock.
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I briefly participated in a project for a packaged software implementation where the project team were using a variation of the Waterfall methodology for the implementation approach. The project scope was for a single business process (IT portfolio management). The project was one year behind schedule and around 1.5 million dollars over budget. I was asked to participate... |
