Posts tagged with: Prioritization

Prioritization and Deep Seated Issues, A Conversation With Jim Benson, Replay, SPaMCAST 814

This week on the Software Process and Measurement Cast we have a replay of an interview of Jim Benson from 2019.  Jim and I focused on prioritization and how prioritization... Read More

Roger Turnau – Taming the Backlog with Cost of Delay, A Conversation, SPaMCAST 796

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 796 features a conversation with Roger Turnau. Roger and I talk about prioritization using the cost of delay. Every organization and team I have... Read More

SPaMCAST 779 – Prioritization Can Be Micromanagement, Power Of Sabbaticals, Essays and Conversations

Software Process and Measurement Cast 779 wrestles with the question, When prioritization involves overly detailed or excessive control over how someone accomplishes their tasks or when it impedes an employee’s... Read More

SPaMCAST 675 – What is a Priority, Bad Leadership, Conversations and Essays

This week we continue the priority theme with an essay titled, “What is a Priority?” I wish it was a simple question. Since the whole idea of priority is premised... Read More

SPaMCAST 674 – Prioritization, Test Automation, Conversations and Essays

In the essay today, prioritization requires a steady hand and consistency. The process for prioritization should have more in common with a well-oiled basketball or futbol team than five-year-olds playing... Read More

What is a priority?

What is a prio Most of you know I am re-reading  Monotasking by Staffan Nöteberg as part of our Re-Read Saturday Feature. I thought I had completed my current theme... Read More

SPaMCAST 663 – Prioritizing Badly, Freestyling User Stories, Essays and Conversations

This week we explore the impact of process (it really isn’t a bad word) problems in prioritization. Prioritization requires a steady hand and consistency. The process for prioritization should have... Read More

Work Entry: Poor Prioritization Processes

Prioritization requires a steady hand and consistency. The process for prioritization should have more in common with a well-oiled basketball or futbol team than five-year-olds playing soccer in the schoolyard.... Read More

Work Entry: Prioritizing Without Control of Work Entry

Prioritization is a form of control over work entry. Tony Timbol (SPamCAST columnist, CEO of Agile Ready, and consultant) would call prioritization a guardrail for the work entry process. Unfortunately,... Read More

Work Entry: Prioritizing Outside Your True Span of Control

There are three common scenarios that generate prioritization decisions outside of an individual or team’s span of control. Some of the most innocuous appearing prioritization problems come from the decisions... Read More
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