Extreme Modifiability

On why software development is more agile than PMBOK expects:

“Software exhibits a characteristic known as “Extreme Modifiability” meaning we can make many changes, even late in the lifecycle and still be successful. While it would be difficult to move a bridge 3 miles upstream when it was 75% complete; we could choose to move validation logic from the presentation layer, to a middle tier, or a database trigger late into a project.”

Great visuals in the article too. [via Leading Answers]

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