The US had it’s credit rating downgraded yesterday. For many people, it seems at first a little abstract and vaguely ominous—a chance for China to get it’s own back after being harangued by the US on its undervaluation of the Yuen. Maybe the outcome will be catastrophic, maybe not so much. Only time will tell. What Standard and Poor’s have basically said is that there is more chance than before that America will fail to pay its bills on time. But what does this have to do with quality software and how it gets built? Well here’s the thing—the way the US government are managing the economy and the debt ceiling are very similar to the way many software projects go slowly south; everyone recognizes that something needs to be done, but none can agree on what the right course of action actually is.
Don't overpromise and foreclose on your project
