Chapter 12Of Course It’s Hard!
Early readers of this book have said, “Ron, you make this seem clear and simple and compelling. We should focus on value, plan by value, manage by value, and build by value. That’s all very well and good. But software development is hard! It’s very hard!”
Of course it’s hard. It’s the nature of what we’re doing that we’re always pushing our own limits. The point of this book, however, is that the approach we should take to doing these hard things is to insist: “Show us the software!” That lets us accomplish the following:
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Focus on what we value, so we can get the best results.
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Produce real software often so that we can learn what we want.
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Build what we want in small steps, so we can see how we’re doing.
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