Convex Returns
Explore how adaptation influences software development, focusing on the concept of convex returns where effort yields increasing benefits. Understand why rapid change suits some systems, like competitive markets, while others need stability, and discover how processes, teams, and designs interrelate to support effective adaptation.
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Change is guaranteed
Change is guaranteed. Survival is not. You’ve heard the Silicon Valley mantras: “Software is eating the world”. “You’re either disrupting the market or you’re going to be disrupted.” “Move fast and break things.” What do they all have in common? A total focus on change, either on the ability to withstand change or, better yet, the ability to create change.
The agile development movement embraced change in response to business conditions. These days, however, the arrow is just as likely to point in the other direction. Software change can create new products and markets. It can open up space for new alliances ...