On Bets

"Every gambler knows / that the secret to survivin' / is knowin' what to throw away / and knowin' what to keep." - The Gambler, Kenny Rogers

This is a short sequence of articles that looks at the idea of betting, at different levels within software development: first from a task-planning perspective, then coding and then debugging.

Outcomes

• Talk about bets rather than tasks.
• Understand risk as a spectrum, rather than an item on a register.
• Understand the appropriate domain for Agile and Planned methodologies.
• Move beyond "Agile" and "Planned" approaches, to a right-tool-for-the-job approach.

The Purpose of the Development Team

Making sense of contradictory objectives with the "Balance of Risk"

Coding Bets

How Coding, Investing and Gambling are similar undertakings.

Debugging Bets

Making use of risk and odds while debugging