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    • A Case Study
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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Decisions”

road stretching off into the distance

Product Roadmaps

What is a Product Roadmap for? What is the “job to be done” for which people “hire” Product Roadmaps? Of course, there are lots of different behaviours that Product Roadmaps …

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Relaxing constraints, moving mountains

A sorely underutilised way to tilt the playing field in Product Development is to simply break the rules that everyone else is playing by. This “thinking different” is often the underlying …

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Black SwansDecisionsDesignDisruptionEmergenceProductSystems

Comparing Cost of Delay approaches

There are many different ways to approach Cost of Delay. It ranges from very simple categorisation or qualitative assessments, to more rigorous quantification of Cost of Delay. None of these is inherently “wrong”. (Rarely are …

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Degrees, Decisions, Design

What is design? As an engineer, I have some tacit knowledge of design – but I have always struggled to explain what it really means. When I started my career, I …

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DecisionsDesign
moneyDev: applying economics to value to estimate cost of delay

MoneyDev: quantifying value vs gut-feel

Billy Beane, the manager of the Oakland A’s baseball team was in trouble. After a successful 2001 season he was losing three of his best players but he had no …

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Cost of DelayDecisions

Lessons on patience: the benefit of delay

In an earlier post, I discussed the importance of speed and the cost of delay for organisations that aren’t leading the market. For those who are attempting to lead the …

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Black Swan Farming using Cost of Delay

Discover, nurture and speed up the delivery of value Improving prioritization has become a tired concept in most IT departments, and yet it has the potential to change the conversation …

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Estimation is hard – but worthwhile

One of the most painful parts of product development is the estimating part. Dan Milstein talks (at length) about the complexity of this in his post about why we all …

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CD3DecisionsDuration

Value: a framework for thinking

How might we think about the potential value of the products and services we could develop? Is there some way of structuring our thoughts so as to more quickly surface …

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Real Options: Embracing Uncertainty

Delaying a decision as long as possible is often a good idea! Sounds counterintuitive doesn’t it, particularly for those of us with a well developed “sense of urgency” (like me!). …

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Value

  • Understanding Value
  • Estimating Value
  • A Value framework
  • Information Discovery Value
  • Option Value
  • Quantifying value vs Intuition

Prioritisation

  • Prioritisation
  • CD3: Cost of Delay Divided by Duration
  • WSJF – Weighted Shortest Job First
  • Urgency, duration and CD3
  • SAFe and WSJF
  • Comparing Prioritisation Approaches

Cost of Delay

  • What is Cost of Delay?
  • Quantifying Cost of Delay (four steps)
  • Qualitative Cost of Delay
  • SAFe & CoD: a suggested improvement
  • Urgency Profiles
  • Why Quantify the Cost of Delay?
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