Dan Ward is one of my new favorite Blogs. Dan is a frequent author in the Defense Journal AT&L.
His F.I.S.T. is Fast, Inexpensive, Simple, and Tiny.
I've restated them here for effect:
- A project leader’s influence is inversely proportional to the project’s budget and schedule
- Creative constraints foster creativity
- Adding time and/or money generally does not improve outcomes
- Fixed funding and floating requirements are better than fixed requirements and floating funding
- Complexity is a cost
- Complexity reduces reliability
- Simplicity scales
- Complexity doesn’t
- An optimal failure costs a little and teaches a lot
- When FIST projects fail, they fail optimally
- Iteration drives learning, discovery and efficiency
- FIST is iterative
- Talent trumps process
- Teamwork trumps paperwork
- Leadership trumps management
- Trust trumps oversight
