Tag: Fuzzy Front End

  • #MIXIT14 – Prioritising ideas using Cost of Delay

    #MIXIT14 – Prioritising ideas using Cost of Delay

    Özlem Yüce is coming to Lyon, France to speak at MIXIT14! How can we survive in a world where stakeholders want it all – and they want it yesterday? Are you tired of conflicting priorities and mechanisms that do not give your clear focus? Then this session is for you! At the end of Özlem’s…

  • #LKNA14

    #LKNA14

    We’re coming to San Francisco! Looking forward to hearing some fantastic speakers talk about “Modern Management Methods” and share a few stories and thoughts of our own, at the Lean Kanban North America 2014 conference. We’ve got a couple of slots: The first will be a talk on Tuesday May 6, 2014 3:30pm – 4:10pm about…

  • Don’t force feed I.T.

    Don’t force feed I.T.

    I got an interesting question the other day about speeding up the Fuzzy Front End and bringing it into focus. The question was about the size of things in the Dynamic Priority List (the queue or backlog, where ideas wait after being quickly captured, valued and sized). The heuristic to apply here is to avoid restricting…

  • Black Swan Farming using Cost of Delay

    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 from one of cutting cost, to delivering valuable solutions as quick as the business needs it. This paper examines how Maersk Line applied an economic…

  • Systems Thinking and I.T.

    Systems Thinking and I.T.

    Everywhere we look in the system for delivering value with software there are opportunities to make improvements that might work well for one part, but have a negative effect on the whole. Systems Thinking is about understanding the purpose of the whole and making improvements with the whole in mind. To quote Wikipedia: “Systems thinking…