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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definitely. one of my objections to increased JIRA-isation of work is that it squeezes out the necessary sub-rosa improvements you make as you go that keep things in working order.
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I think the trick is to focus on logging what you're doing over trying to "manage" it. Observability over control. Log-level thinking.

