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The essence of bureaucracy?

Musings on Project Management

All projects of any scale are bureaucratic, meaning: there is some pecking order, some chain of decision making -- especially when there is "other people's money" funding the project -- and some means for assigning responsibilities (followed, consequentially, by measurements and accountability) And so, I was struck by this passage which asserts the "essence of bureaucracy": (my emphasis.

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Project Versus Product in Agile Development

Herding Cats

Agree, and focus more on discovery since in *delivery* you have 4 problems: 1. Requirements will change, 2. Requirements are never complete 3. It’s impossible to gather all requirements in beginning 4. You don’t have enough time or $$$ to do everything. This quote is typically the basis of proposing agile software development over traditional software development.

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