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the purpose of a company is not to make money

The purpose of an organisation is not to make money

… it is as absurd to say that the Purpose of an organisation is to make money as it is to say that the Purpose of a human being is to eat or breathe.

The Capable Company: Building the capabilites that make strategy work, Richard L. Lynch, John G. Diezemann, James F. Dowling, via jchyip.blogspot.com

 

i think i’m paraphrasing Goldratt here:
– the goal is to make money, now and in the future
(me) ..in order to be able to do what you love, now and in the future

in other words, money is not the “why” but the “how”:

  • what: what you do for a living (and hopefully enjoy)
  • how: make money, now and in the future
  • why: to be able to continue doing what you enjoy

agile sw dev: more agility means better quality

Whether or not programmers take steps to make their code reliable and easy to change will show up on the balance sheets of businesses of all sizes.

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Practices that were known to produce more reliable software, and that make software easier to adapt and evolve, have been understood for decades.

software of good quality is:

reliable code, easy to change – adapt and evolve.

i.e., to become more agile.. is to improve quality of software.. is:

to produce more reliable code, make it easier to change, easier to adapt, easier to evolve

software development includes randomness and variation

The Agile community recognised that software development is a knowledge creation activity which includes randomness and variation …. We can take this further by understanding the mathematics and science behind the randomness and variation and exploiting this to our advantage.