61. Orphaned Deliverables
People develop project artifacts that no one values enough to pay for.
Every process improvement initiative in the systems and software industry defines a flood of new activities, roles, and artifacts. For example, the Rational Unified Process and the German V-Model suggest more than 150 deliverables, each. These deliverables include requirements specifications, design documents, specific models, user-interface concepts, test plans, estimates, . . . the list seems endless.
One of the artifacts that is never questioned is the final deliverable: the product. But what are the merits of the others? Do we need them all? Is it worth spending time and effort producing them?
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