idea
Product delivery is a balancing act between cost, delay and quality, in that controlling one of the variables is automatically having an impact on the two others:
- Reducing cost (resources, people) is either sacrificing time or quality.
- Reducing timeline is either increasing cost or decreasing quality.
- Increasing quality is increasing time or cost.
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Cost of delay is leveraging two of the three dimensions (cost and time) to measure backlogs.
Scope Control is a way to impact overall quality without impacting underlying quality (i.e. deliver the same quality, but less features)
Clean code is impossible to obtain under resource and time constraints if scope control is not allowed.
references
- Wikipedia / Quality, cost, delivery
- Amazon's LPs have Frugality (cost), Insist on Highest Standards (quality) and delay (Deliver Results).