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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

Prioritizing based on business value is an example of the lean concept of 'Taking an Economic View of Decision Making.' I wrote about these ideas when I started blogging in 2006 as  Risk Profile Graphs. Risk management, like backlog prioritization, is not a once-and-done process. These charts use the same idea.

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Systems Thinking in Organizational Coaching

Scrum.org

Small changes can produce big results—but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline, 2006). Over time, the capabilities for the fundamental solution may atrophy or become disabled, leading to an even greater reliance on the symptomatic solution (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline, 2006).

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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

The mechanical perspective draws attention to the structure and processes of organizations. Morgan (2006) explores the roots of this mechanical perspective?—?or In the following century, it would give rise to modern-day practices like lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and Gantt-charts. The Organization as a Machine.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management: When Performance is Measured Performance Improves , Daniel Galaorath and Michael Evans , Auerbach, 2006. Agile Estimating and Planning , Mike Cohn, Prentice Hall, 2006. Estimating Software-Intensive Systems: Projects, Products, and Processes , Richard Stutzke, Addison-Wesley, 2005.

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Route to Enterprise Scale Agility

Digite

I caught up with Kanban pioneer David Anderson on the sidelines of Lean Kanban Central Europe and Lean Kanban India last year and asked him about his thoughts. While Scrum is probably most prevalent in IT, Kanban and Lean are significant too. It was replicated at Robert Bosch’s South Bend, Indiana facility in 2006.

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

Scrum.org

In the attempt to fill Scrum’s product discovery void, product delivery organizations regularly turn to other agile frameworks like lean UX, jobs-to-be-done, lean startup, design thinking, design sprint—just to name a few. Example : The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (just between you and me) from August 2nd, 2006.).

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Project Portfolio Management Works for More Than Just IT

Meisterplan

When people hear the term project portfolio management (PPM), many think that it is a process to manage IT projects and investments. Reducing the number of “bad” projects that are approved, and knowing when to cancel “bad” projects that are already in process. PPM processes can be very complicated, but they don’t have to be.

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