Voke: Confusion abounds over how to use agile

By Suzanne Kattau

July 25, 2012 — (Page 3 of 3)
In response to Voke’s report that agile software costs are rising, Humble said that Voke is making the same mistake as many enterprises that treat IT as a cost center: It is focusing on development cost instead of return on investment. Humble quoted Douglas W. Hubbard in his book “How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business”: “Even in projects with very uncertain development costs, we haven't found that those costs have a significant information value for the investment decision... The single most important unknown is whether the project will be canceled…. The next most important variable is utilization of the system, including how quickly the system rolls out and whether some people will use it at all.”

Thus, according to Humble, getting a quality product that incorporates customer feedback in 11 months for the same price as getting a mediocre one in 17 months represents an incredible deal. “Today, enterprises are being challenged by technology-powered startups that are able to leverage lean and agile methodologies to create a competitive advantage,” Humble said. “Thus, the failure of many enterprises to implement agile at scale, as noted by Voke’s report, is indeed a serious problem.”

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Comments

07/26/2012 02:55:53 PM EST

This seems like a one sided piece. You intereviewed an agile consulting shop -- "Throughtworks" for this? Of course they are going to complain about it. Agile did not invent TDD, refactoring etc as opined by the Agile Vendor. Jordan

United StatesJordan

08/16/2012 05:52:17 PM EST

If you'd like to read my full response to Voke's article, it's available here: http://continuousdelivery.com/2012/07/voke-report-agile-delivers-higher-customer-satisfaction-and-quality/

United StatesJez Humble