{"id":367,"date":"2008-05-16T00:29:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T04:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken\/?p=367"},"modified":"2008-05-16T00:29:42","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T04:29:42","slug":"catastrophic-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/catastrophic-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Catastrophic mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/luckyl\/387950541\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/176\/387950541_5ede1a620a_m.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled by LucKyL - WahoO from flickr\"  title=\"Untitled by LucKyL - WahoO from flickr\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.construx.com\/blogs\/stevemcc\/archive\/2008\/05\/13\/Software_2700_s-Classic-Mistakes_2D002D00_2008.aspx\">Construx has a white paper revisiting Stephen McConnell&#8217;s Software Development&#8217;s Classic Mistakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In it, they list ten mistakes most likely to produce catastrophic or serious consequences. <\/p>\n<p>Half of them speak more to executive and product management than development:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<li>#1 unrealistic expectations<\/li>\n<li>#2 weak personnel<\/li>\n<li>#4 wishful thinking<\/li>\n<li>#7 lack of sponsorship<\/li>\n<li>#10 lack of user involvement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given my experience of organizations that means projects are marked for failure well before agile methods are even applied.<\/p>\n<p>Under these circumstances, we can hope frequent delivery will either morph the project into something more valuable or cause it to die a quick and merciful death.<\/p>\n<p>A better answer disperses transparency, collaboration and continuous improvement from the team room out to sponsors, stakeholders, support units, suppliers, customers and end users &#8212; from development and project management to economies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construx has a white paper revisiting Stephen McConnell&#8217;s Software Development&#8217;s Classic Mistakes. In it, they list ten mistakes most likely to produce catastrophic or serious consequences. Half of them speak more to executive and product management than development: #1 unrealistic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/catastrophic-mistakes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[11,19,525,45,46,526,47,878,119],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-development","tag-agile-management","tag-agile-software-development","tag-construx","tag-failure","tag-mistakes","tag-product-management","tag-product-ownership","tag-scrum","tag-stephen-mcconnell"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/387950541_5ede1a620a_m.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}