What Are Your Emergency Projects?
When your organization is in crisis all the time, you need to manage the project portfolio. On the other hand, you might have to react to the world changing. Sometimes the platform on which you develop changes. Or your major competitor just announced a new product. You want to react to the world changing. You want to change what you’re working on.
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 your strategy and tactics (which projects to do when) so you can respond to disruptive ...
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