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Is it just me, or is "project management" as an idea kinda way past its limits when applied to software-eaten examples? The higher the bits:atoms ratio, the more project management breaks down for a given level of complexity (doesn't have to be software... just bit-dense)
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It's not an agile vs. waterfall thing. It's that PM of either flavor has the wrong ontology for everything going on. It doesn't capture the sense of herding a distributed, loosely synchronized set of local activities together in a foggy VUCA landscape, trying to engineer luck
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There's elements of it that's like portfolio or program management. A kind of level inflation. All meaningful projects now are kinda like portfolio-programs. If it can be handled with PM methods, it probably hasn't been done any differently since 1965.
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Kinda thinking about that right now:
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When enough results are faked consecutively, the project is fatally derailed. Timelines explode due to non-independence of future results. Progress slows to a crawl. The project is in crisis. Emergency meetings are held, slowing down progress even further. I have lived this.
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It's hard to tell. Obviously both Apple and MS have what are, to us as outsiders, suboptimal SW project management. (For Apple on-going small pain year on year; for MS occasional huge pain.) Google likely has the same though it's hard to know from the outside.
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