Flex Your Agile Triangle and Add Value

by Jim Highsmith

I have been thinking about measuring performance, again. Part of this thinking results from reading Implementing Beyond Budgeting: Unlocking the Performance Potential by Bjarte Bogsnes. I also went back to the numbers in the Standish reports that have been quoted for years indicating poor software development performance. According to these "Chaos" reports, in 1994 82% of software projects were challenged or failures, while in 2001 that improved to 72%. As a reminder, these reports defined results in the following terms:

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Flex Your Agile Triangle and Add ValueThu Apr 30 08:20:13 CDT 2009

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