Not dropping practices under pressure
Talking of the Scotland IS Agile event, the other presentations were very good. Rob Lally said something that is particulary worth repeating. He was talking about being landed with a hot potato project last year. Inheriting a two year project with about 8 weeks to an umoveable deadline and facing a complete rewrite from scratch, the first thing things they did was to make sure all the important things were in place (source control, continuous integration, a good set of estimated stories):
"We follow these practices because we believe they give us benefit. If you have a practice that you drop when you're under pressure, then it is a dead weight. It's not worth following when you're not under pressure."(I paraphrase from memory.)
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