Leadership Foundations
The Iron Triangle Still Wins
Why software leaders never escape the tradeoff between scope, speed, and quality.
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This essay is currently being developed. It will explore the leadership decisions, organizational consequences, and practical tradeoffs behind this idea.
It will return to the durable relationship between scope, speed, and quality — and why new methods rarely dissolve that triangle.
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