What Are Your Emergency Projects?
When I was developing the feedback loops (in Figure 4, A dynamic view of what happens when no one manages the project portfolio) so you could see the difference between managing the portfolio and not managing the portfolio, I was explaining to a colleague what I meant by emergency projects—projects that start because of technical debt. But my colleague asked, “What if the world changes and you need to change everything you do?”
When the world changes, you may have to throw out most of your projects and start all over again. That’s because of disruptive change. Highsmith discussed this in Adaptive Software Development [Hig99] as early as 1999. That’s why you need your mission. With a mission, you can update ...
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