Tech Leading - Prioritization and Decision Making

Link Collections

• Time Management Ultimate Guide

Training Courses and Videos

• Mike Figliuolo - Lynda - Decision Making Strategies 💲

• Drew Boyd - Lynda - Six Biases of Decision Making 💲

• * Ryan D - You don’t need to stop shipping features to fix technical debt [24:39] Takeaway: Presents a framework for prioritising work around unplanned, delivery performance, program work and functional work. Unplanned time percentage should be based on historical data. Importance of communicating the business value of any piece of work. All work in the backlog should be categorised. Use the framework to align stakeholders around what category the work is. Make sure you know how you are being successful. Make sure if you choose to defer risk to get things across the line, that your stakeholders are aligned and know they are deferring it.

Books

• Edmond Lau - The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact 💲 Takeaway: Prioritisation is a high leverage activity as it helps you find all other high leverage activities to do next. Use if-then plans to avoid procrastination. Learn to say no. Limit WIP to limit context switching.

Articles

• Adam Tornhill - Communicate the Effects of Technical Improvements to Non-Technical Stakeholders

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