Comments on: Plan Your Next Sprint By ROI: Part 1

By: Prioritising requirements - how to do it and why it is critical to project success

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:28:07 +0000

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By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:55:03 +0000

Thanks, Harry, for the shout-out.

By: Harry Nieboer

Harry Nieboer — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:27:29 +0000

The discussion between Scott and Luke (in this post and the next) is very educating.

As part of a course I deliver we do an exersise on assigning priorities where we don’t that much use the numbers, but focus more on ways to reach agreement on the assigned priorities.

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:41:40 +0000

Hey Luke, thanks three times.

First for commenting :) Welcome to Tyner Blain.

Second, for normally agreeing with me.

Third, thanks for pointing out the sloppiness. Yes, financial terms is not the right way to balance strategic, political, user-centric, and non-broken windows priorities. You have to go to a relative measure of value. I guess that’s why I immediately switched when I started getting into the meat of the article.

Let’s take the conversation to the part-2 I just wrote: Plan Your Next Sprint by Bang For The Buck: Part 2. Hopefully, you’ll agree that my poor choice of language in part 1 is what was flawed, and not the ideas. Looking forward to your thoughts and everyone else’s!

Scott

By: Luke Hohmann

Luke Hohmann — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:25:03 +0000

Normally, I find myself agreeing with Scott’s writings. In this case, I think Scott is tragically flawed: Prioritizing a Product Backlog for ROI is a fool’s errand. Scott, please read http://www.enthiosys.com/insights-tools/prioritizeforprofit1of3/.

As an aside, I really dislike that you start talking about ROI in financial terms and then immediately switch to “units” of value.

Luke

PS. Gotta LOVE the web and how it allows us to debate such topics!