product between quality and over-engineering

src: [Devfest Lille 2024] Le produit entre la qualité et l’Over-Engineering

Abstract

Some common advice to deal with over-engineering that takes place not only on the technical part but also on processes (e.g. scrum, SAFe), organization (e.g. multiple hierarchical layers)…

Why does it happen?

• lack of clear objectives
• bad backlog priorization

Some mitigation:

• communicate clear objectives and priorities
• define realistic delays
• set a simple organization
• use performance measure framework (DORA, SPACE, …)