It occurred to me that a basic effor/time saving principle of agile project management is that you don’t try to plan everything up front, because you don’t need to!
The fact that for example getting a site live ready by a certain date requires a change to the URL pointing means you only need to worry about it [...]
Stuart Glendinning Hall
Covering pretty much everything, and social networking.
Complexity
Using dependencies in agile project style management
Is complexity to blame?
AIG’s complexity blamed for fall: “The complexity and international spread of AIG’s operations impeded regulatory oversight of the derivatives unit that helped bring down the insurer, according to former executives, analysts and regulators.” (FT report)
Hmm, complexity? Maybe they should have invested in a product such as Datawatch’s Monarch software which is designed to transform report [...]
Systemantics
The Fundamental Law of Administrative Workings (F.L.A.W.): Things are what they are reported to be. The real world is what it is reported to be. (That is, the system takes as given that things are as reported, regardless of the true state of affairs.)..