InfoQ: “Achieving Agility Needed for Business Survival”
An Enthiosys newsletter titled Chefs and Agile Restaurateurs discusses the need for business agility, drawing the comparison between Agile development and chefs. The article raises a number of useful comparisons that Agile teams will benefit from remembering:
- Revenue happens when customers buy and use our solutions, not when we release them. The chef with the most magnificent menu isn’t successful; it’s only when people come along and order the food that we can become successful
- Releases don’t equal revenue. The uncoordinated kitchen which gets the meals out in the wrong order results in unhappy customers; it’s only by getting the meals out in correctly that we create happy diners, who pay for this meal and come back for more
- Well coordinated releases put money in the cash register sooner. A smoothly flowing kitchen allows us to turn the tables quicker and make more money sooner.
17 Mar 2009 | Source: InfoQ
