Alright, so, on the one hand the gentleman is selling something. On the other, he's selling something that the software industry really needs. Software planning is secretly a game of risk management. One of the reasons software companies struggle with it so badly is because planing around risk is highly subjective and the average punter is truly terrible at assessing risk.
Something like a hill chart is actually a tool that is much more powerful than it looks. It has the potential to convince a dutiful but unimaginative senior manager or productperson that their job is to worry about risk. That moment is a high-variance one that can create millions of dollars in value if it happens to the right person at the right time. No joke, it is conceivable that these hill charts generate entire salaries worth of value compared to Gantt charts. Not a certainty, but boring process optimisations can be deceptive.
I wish them the best of luck with this one. Convincing people to look at risks is a thankless task and it'd be great if someone cracks the nut of how to do that while making a profit.
Alright, so, on the one hand the gentleman is selling something. On the other, he's selling something that the software industry really needs. Software planning is secretly a game of risk management. One of the reasons software companies struggle with it so badly is because planing around risk is highly subjective and the average punter is truly terrible at assessing risk.
Something like a hill chart is actually a tool that is much more powerful than it looks. It has the potential to convince a dutiful but unimaginative senior manager or productperson that their job is to worry about risk. That moment is a high-variance one that can create millions of dollars in value if it happens to the right person at the right time. No joke, it is conceivable that these hill charts generate entire salaries worth of value compared to Gantt charts. Not a certainty, but boring process optimisations can be deceptive.
I wish them the best of luck with this one. Convincing people to look at risks is a thankless task and it'd be great if someone cracks the nut of how to do that while making a profit.