Randall Iliff

Join us for this special January Virtual Meeting, the last in our free series, as we welcome a distinguished guest, Randall Iliff, to discuss Simultaneous Excellence and the intersection of Agile and Waterfall Project Management. 

In order to sell common sense you must first give it a brand name, then a unique set of rules and terms, and finally argue that your version is better than all the other versions that have ever existed. It can be a lucrative business, and seemingly inexhaustible, but what the average user ends up with is at best no longer common, and at worst no longer even makes sense.

Look no further than “Agile” which has morphed from a clever reminder that stepwise refinement is a really useful approach whenever the goal is unclear, to a holy crusade fighting the evil “Waterfall” for domination of the development thought universe. 

The constants are things we just need to execute again, and have established definitions of success we can test against for variance. The variables are things we must imagine, define, constrain, react to, or otherwise determine so that they can then be executed. These two task types are mixed like grains of different colored sand, always distinct at the most basic level, yet blurred to the casual view.