It’s a technique that we all love! PoC or Proof of Concept approach is a trend in software development to create a demo of a project in advance. It’s a fairly new method, especially when compared to old-school alternatives such as RFP (i.e. Request for Proposal).
However, the big question to address is “how essential is the PoC approach in SDLC?”
Nicole Forsgren’s, Jez Humble’s, and Gene Kim’s latest book, Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations, describes the factors that drive high-performing tech organizations, derived from the data that has been aggregated with the State of DevOps Report since 2014.
Accelerateis a must-read book for anyone involved in building Agile organizations and teams. It lays out a path to success based on a statistical analysis of data. It also puts an end to the popular narrative that "becoming Agile" is somehow a fuzzy process. The data shows that there are patterns at all levels that successful Agile organizations share.
