Why Is Continuous Improvement Hard?
Apart from the obvious problem mentioned earlier (that is, the fear that devoting any time to fixing problems and/or learning new practices will negatively impact project schedules), I believe there may be another reason why adopting a continuous improvement mindset is hard. In this case, though, it’s more subtle. Like any other discipline, software engineering has seen its fair share of fads. Throughout my career I had seen so many fads come and go that, when I first heard about agile, I didn’t want anything to do with it. I assumed it was just the next fad, and if I held my breath for 6 months or so, it would go away just like all the others. Even now that agile has been in the mainstream for more than a ...
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