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This is one of the reasons why kanban is my favorite project management methodology. "Ah, new highest priority feature. Lets do a mini discovery session and i
by Verdex 3y ago
This is one of the reasons why kanban is my favorite project management methodology.
"Ah, new highest priority feature. Lets do a mini discovery session and it looks like this work can be represented with 20 sticky notes. Our historical team velocity is 10 sticky notes every two weeks. So we'll probably be done in four weeks. If we take down all the existing work in progress. Lets go to each existing sticky and you can confirm that we can stop working on it."
The stakeholders are still allowed to make decisions, but (hopefully) it forces them to be realistic and understand what they're asking the team to do.
- jacques_chester 3y agoPivotal Tracker does something like this with release markers. You can set markers between any two stories and, optionally, set a date. Tracker does a very simple moving average projection and if the stories before the marker will take too long, it turns bright red. I found it remarkably effective at getting business folks to actually prioritize. They don't believe you, but they'll believe the computer.