Fantasy Development Methodology
Wednesday, 20 June 2007
Scott Berkun’s talks about dysfunctional development methodologies.
He has left out Fantasy Development Methodology.
Here are the basic steps:
- Sales promises delivery of fantasy product on a fixed cost fixed time basis
- Business analyst specs up fantasy software
- Project managers spec up fantasy schedule
- Engineers make fantasy estimates
- Lead engineer adopts fantasy methodology
- Fantasy driven development meets fantasy-driven schedule
- Software doesn’t work, but journalists have already been told of how well the new rollout went
- Party for engineers, promotion for sales team and the IT manager
