From the course: Agile Product Owner Role: Techniques
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Categorization/grouping prioritization
From the course: Agile Product Owner Role: Techniques
Categorization/grouping prioritization
- Creating a hierarchical grouping of items helps many teams make decisions and stay focused. For some teams, features and items need to be categorized before forced ranking, or even categorized into priorities to see how alignment is working with the roadmap, vision, and strategy. Categorization as a prioritization technique involves getting the team together to create a shared understanding and common dialog about priorities. It involves grouping items into categories like high, medium, and low. Or another common grouping is called MoSCoW. More on what that means later. To facilitate this prioritization activity, I use a card or a sticky note for each item being prioritized. If the group of people working on the prioritization is already small, like three to five people, a facilitator can explain the categories and what they mean, describing the boundaries and ensuring a clear understanding between the team on what each category is all about. Then, the facilitator takes the first…
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