Category: effectiveness

Are you efficient or effective?

May 28, 2009 by Mendelt Siebenga

Efficiency and effectiveness are two words that are often used interchangeably. Many methodologies promise 'increased efficiency and effectiveness'. I find this strange because in a rapidly changing environment like software engineering these two are often mutually exclusive. I think in order to understand agility it’s important to understand the differences between these two and the tradeoffs you are making between them.