ubiquitous fluency : a domain-driven team learns to love the view
Let's set the stage with a quote from the co-author of PeopleWare, a book on our short list for 'most influential' in software engineering.
Without knowing anything at all about your current project, I'll bet even money that you'll be late. After all, well over half of all projects deliver late or deliver less than was promised by the original deadline. It's far worse when a project is on an admittedly aggressive schedule. Project people seem disconcerted when I proclaim that I'm willing to bet against them. They try so hard to believe that they'll buck the odds. What usually happens is that everyone agrees that the deadline is very tight; everyone works very hard; and then, when people see that they won't make it, they are shocked, disappointed, and deeply dismayed.
Tiim Lister
Reprinted by permission of Dorset House Publishing from
WALTZING WITH BEARS (ISBN: 0-932633-60-9), p. 48.
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