Talk:Team Practices Group/Best Practices Handbook/Archive 1

=Prioritizing product backlogs= Rough draft for best practices for prioritizing:
 * 1) Cut early and often
 * 2) anything you can cut, you don't have to look at again, much less actually do
 * 3) Look to cut:
 * 4) anything that doesn't fulfill a high-level goal
 * 5) anything that doesn't have supporters/audience
 * 6) In order of the higher-level goals
 * 7) within all tasks that fulfill a higher-level goal,
 * 8) End-to-End, Breadth before depth.
 * 9) prioritize stories that complete a full pass through the product before stories that add features to an existing part of the product flow.
 * 10) handle items with a high value-to-cost ratio sooner
 * 11) handle high value items sooner
 * 12) consider handling high risk items sooner
 * 13) how to handle conflicting higher-level goals?
 * 14) Preserve capacity
 * 15) Things that are blocking lots of people
 * 16) things that affect productivity
 * 17) hitting WIP limiters
 * 18) impediments, tooling issues and other issues that affect velocity
 * 19) Build capacity
 * 20) prioritize scaffolding, and stories that obviate scaffolding
 * 21) eliminate bottlenecks