Druckman: Locking Budget, Schedule, and Scope Forces Teams to Compromise Quality
Angela Druckman · Infinite Money Made Her Client Worse at Shipping Than Startups · Jul 26, 2022 · at 39:58
Certified Scrum trainer Angela Druckman discusses the consequences of fixing all constraints of the project management Iron Triangle on software engineering teams.
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“When you take a technical team and you lock down all points of the iron triangle, kind of what you just did is you put them inside like a pressure cooker, and they're going to look for a place for that pressure to relieve. You've told them, I can't get you more people to help, so it's not going to be relieved that way. I can't push the data out a little, so I can't relieve it that way, and I can't Cut scope. So the technical people start thinking, okay, what do we have control of where we can get a little relief here? And the only thing they have left that's totally under their control is technical quality.”
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