Chapter 10Value—What Is It?
A reader asked: “Ron, in Chapter 2, Value Is What We Want, you just say that value is what we want. Isn’t that an oversimplification?”
I replied: “Well, yes, as is everything in this book.” Let me say a few more words, however, to help out a bit. See also Chapter 11, Value—How Can We Measure It?.
In the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance [Pir00], Robert Pirsig’s protagonist, Phaedrus, is exploring the idea of quality. At one point he reaches the statement: “Quality is what you like.” I’m offering a similar thought here.
In Agile software development—as in many other realms—we talk about the notion of value. We make decisions about what to do, or what not to do, based on value. We do things sooner ...
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