No One Is Noticing the Law of Triviality Is Causing Software Projects to Fail
Focus on the trivial is at the expense of important
“What is urgent is seldom important and what is important is seldom urgent.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
The greatest trick the law of triviality ever pulled was convincing the world the law didn’t exist or affect software projects.
Software projects are busy with people working hard, doing tasks, having meetings, creating reports and looking at dashboards.
Being busy on the wrong activities is harmful not helpful and law of triviality focuses people away from priorities
Focusing on the activities that can be measured but are not priority. Like a magician using misdirection; the project is busy with the trivial and lose sight they important activities are falling behind.
The Law of triviality explains people focus on trivial activities they understand and skim over complex problems they don’t.
The plan fails if you don’t progress with the deliverables on the critical path. A project is delivered when the slowest part of it is delivered. You only get to the top of a mountain when the slowest hiker reaches the top.
