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Tuesday, September 14, 2004
To Plan Or To Iterate -- After too long a wait, Tony Rizzo of The Product Development Institute has joined the blogosphere with The Soap Box. If you read me, Hal, and Clarke, I encourage you to add Tony to your regular perusal. His first weekend of posts includes the following...
"The conflict between those who would use an iterative approach and those who would define specifications and develop appropriately detailed models of projects is really no conflict at all. Both sides of this conflict are correct. An iterative process is needed. But we also need project plans and well-designed project models. We simply must recognize that we cannot plan an entire, large development effort to the same level of detail. Instead, we design a strategy for the overall development effort, and we construct plans and detailed models only for the few steps immediately before us. Therefore, little has changed really, other than the scope of our project plans and the corresponding models. Instead of trying to define the mother of all project plans, we define many smaller project plans, in rapid succession."
You won't find me disagreeing.
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