When Software Development Goes Wrong, Leaders Hide Under the Covers and Hope
Software development plans go out of date faster than fresh donuts brought from a bakery. Initial plans over promise and under deliver, broken by problems and scope creep.
The people on the project have to pull straws to see who is going to inform leadership of the additional cost/time and risk getting shot with the bad news.
Software is a creative process and the no one knows the full requirements when creating the initial plan (Why Software Project Plans Don’t Help Create Software).
You can’t estimate a creative processes such as writing a book or painting a picture. Software development is misunderstood and most non-developers know enough to be dangerous, create ambitious plans and slow to swap those plans for realistic ones.
The common approach to a late is to jump into bed, pull the covers over their heads and hope the project gets itself back on track.
You can’t escape late projects by hiding from them and projects don’t fix themselves. Making up time without removing scope is as likely as England scoring 5 penalties in a penalty shootout.
