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All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business

Scrum.org

This commercial product was built using traditional project management practices and delivered on a two-yearly cadence. From 2005 (first beta) until 2012 they worked, successfully delivering a new version every 2 years. Even before 2012 Leadership, and engineers, had noticed that things were getting bogged down.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

RFETS was a nuclear bomb manufacturing plant, built in 1951, operating until 1989, and closed in 2005. Probabilistic Schedule and Cost Analysis , prepared for NNJ051R, NASA Crew Exploration Vehicle, 2005. Level 5 Leadership , an extract from Jim Collins Good to Great used on an Enterprise IT program for Department of Energy.