Agility and predictability are at odds. Agility means responding to changing circumstances quickly, but then you won’t be able to predict where you’ll be one year from now. To ensure predictability, you need to freeze a decision like “We’ll stick with a database server with 100 GB memory for the next year”, which is the opposite of agile.
Notes From Cloud Strategy by Gregor Hohpe
Notes From Cloud Strategy by Gregor Hohpe
Notes From Cloud Strategy by Gregor Hohpe
Agility and predictability are at odds. Agility means responding to changing circumstances quickly, but then you won’t be able to predict where you’ll be one year from now. To ensure predictability, you need to freeze a decision like “We’ll stick with a database server with 100 GB memory for the next year”, which is the opposite of agile.