Practical tips for success
Let us take a look at a few pointers that might help you with your prioritization activities. They are very useful and important and can potentially save you a lot of pain and time:
- Manage expectations by progressive prioritization and by being transparent.
- Set expectations with stakeholders that not all requirements may be implemented.
- Ask the right question:
- What problem are we trying to solve?
- What happens if we implement it?
- What happens if we do not implement it?
- Involve the right stakeholder who is relevant to a specific session. For example, if you are discussing the account management process, there is no value in inviting all quote/contract management stakeholders.
- Not all stakeholders are the same. Some have a bigger say on what to prioritize because of their rank, knowledge, role, and so on.
- Whenever you reprioritize, make sure you are not breaking something else. You need to re-run whatever technique you used before, plus...
