Prioritizing Features and Knowing Why
Overview
This session introduced a rapid and comprehensive way to prioritize a backlog of potential features and decide a better order to deliver these features. There are many reasons to deliver some work before others, and Troy explored at least three dimensions: valuable, perishable, and possible. By the end of this session, attendees had a concrete technique to use for prioritization that incorporates the cost of delay and size in addition to just plain old “value.”
Learning outcomes :
1. Prioritizing work isn’t just about value; it’s more complex
2. A ranked list is one output, but educating everyone why that order makes sense is key to actually delivering in that order
3. Prioritization need not be labor-intensive or require exact mathematical calculations or estimation
4. Prioritizing can be fun!
Meet the Speaker
Troy Magennis
Founder, Focused Objective LLC
Troy has been involved with technology companies since 1994, fulfilling roles from QA through to VP for multinational companies. Troy speaks at many Agile conferences and has played an Agile training and mentoring role for executives in small and large organizations. Previous clients include: Walmart, Microsoft, Skype, Sabre Airline Solutions, Siemens Healthcare.Troy currently consults and trains organizations wanting to improve decision making on software portfolio and project questions through Agile and Lean thinking and tools. Applying Scrum and Lean techniques appropriately and where they are going to make this biggest benefit through quantitative rigor.
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