How Projects Die : Domino Collapse

Dr Stuart Woolley
CodeX
Published in
5 min readJul 16, 2022

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The ‘death by a thousand cuts’ of the software development lifecycle.

Photo by Bradyn Trollip on Unsplash

I’ve always been fascinated with the software development lifecycle — in particularly handling the tremendous cognitive dissonance between how it’s laid out in theory and how it’s played out in practice.

I’m not going to get in to agile too much here (yeah, right), heaven knows it’s an easy target, and I…

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Dr Stuart Woolley
CodeX

Worries about the future. Way too involved with software. Likes coffee, maths, and . Would prefer to be in academia. SpaceX, Twitter, and Overwatch fan.