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When Everything is Important But Nothing is Getting Done
- As Fred Brooks pointed out almost 50 years ago, “adding more engineers to an already late project won’t make it go faster”.
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- Said inversely, value is created only when someone uses the deliverable. Until something is shipped, zero value is created.
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- Objectives are great! “Objectives versus priorities” is similar to “problem versus solution” thinking. Objectives tell you the goal and let you figure out how to get there. You set your own priorities and the only thing that matters is if the goal is achieved or not.
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- The definition of done we implemented had three key questions for us to answer:-Did it solve the user problem?-Was it deployed to production? -Has it been in use for a ‘long-enough’ period of time?
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- - Continue this process
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- Our projects were scoped too large. The larger they got, the longer they took and the more risk and scope creep was introduced.
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- I wanted to highlight that there is not a “Just Do This One Simple Trick” solution to challenging organizational problems. These issues build up over long periods of time and form deeply held and sometimes unconscious patterns of organizational behavior. No one intends to build processes that don’t work, but they sometimes implement processes that ... See more
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- When you commit to quantifying urgency and impact, you create a shared language as to why you’re working on something:Urgency is a byproduct of deadlines and dependencies. Do you need something tomorrow, or can you get it in two weeks? Is a project a dependency for something else to move forward?Impact is a combination of potential value created ve... See more
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- "High-medium-low" doesn’t scale. At four or more tasks, you’re forced to start doubling down on designations or to create subcategories of priorities. Eventually, you find yourself with a bucket of “high priority” projects wherein you don’t know what to tackle first.
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