Better/Sooner/Cheaper/More—I began talking this week about a fundamental Extreme Programming technique for managing resources & immediately remembered why I stopped talking about it. Here are the basics. Back in the day folks would say, “Sooner, cheaper, better—your choice of any two.” That made good sense in that you as a customer can’t dictate all three. At some point something is going to give. You keep demanding sooner, sooner, sooner, cheaper, cheaper, cheaper & what you get is going to get worse. Complaining about this makes no sense—the degradation was the result of
I feel like "better" is being conflated to mean either "quality" or "scope" depending on the context.
Should we be using the terms from the PM Iron Triangle? -- https://www.villanovau.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/img_Iron-Triangle-Project-Management-1.png
Why even have Better as an option to chose from? It shouldn't be an option. I think overall we cannot afford to make "unBetter" software.
Better for the customer. The customer decides.