Agile and Business Analysis, 2nd Edition

8 PRIORITISING THE WORK

This chapter covers the following topics:

• the importance of prioritisation;

• prioritisation techniques;

• applying prioritisation;

• prioritisation decomposition;

• prioritisation issues.

INTRODUCTION

All businesses are subject to change. Small changes happen frequently as part of day-to-day business as usual. Major changes are more likely to be the subject of a specific change project. A change might be made to the way in which a task is conducted or might involve the development of a new product. However, whether a change is small or major, or concerns a process or product, organisations need to prioritise their changes. This may be an obvious statement, but too often prioritisation is overlooked, particularly ...