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.
Share this post
Notes From Cloud Strategy by Gregor Hohpe
Share this post
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.