Or both.
These are clumsy techniques. Aggressive deadlines end up increasing schedules rather than reducing
them [McConnell 1996] (p. 220), and offshoring has hidden costs [Overby].
Do aggressive deadlines and the threat of offshoring sound familiar? If so, it??™s time for your team to take
back responsibility for its success: not just for personal or technical success, but for organizational success
as well.
Organizational
success
Technical
success
Personal
success
Figure 1-1. Types of success
T H E I M P O R T A N C E O F O R G A N I Z A T I O N A L S U C C E S S 5
WHAT DO ORGANIZATIONS VALUE?
Although some projects??™ value comes directly from sales, there??™s more to organizational value than revenue.
Projects provide value in many ways, and you can??™t always measure that value in dollars and cents.
Aside from revenue and cost savings, sources of value include:*
??? Competitive differentiation
??? Brand projection
??? Enhanced customer loyalty
??? Satisfying regulatory requirements
??? Original research
??? Strategic information
Enter Agility
Will agile development help you be more successful? It might. Agile development focuses on achieving
personal, technical, and organizational successes.
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