Continuations

I have written about prioritization previously on Tech Tuesday, introducing a prioritization heuristic and emphasizing the importance of a healthy mix of different projects. Today I want to add some point on how to think about competition in the context of prioritization. This is particularly important when you are in a somewhat crowded field and need to differentiate yourself from the competition. What features should you prioritize when competing? Go back and take a look at the post on the ...

Last Tech Tuesday, I wrote about a heuristic for prioritization. If you took that approach to its extreme you would always work on only the lowest hanging fruit (at the time). That would of course be an over simplification for several reasons. First, for any but the most trivial projects there will be a list of known bugs of varying severity that have to be fixed. Second, as I mentioned in an earlier post on technical debt, you will have to allocate some time to getting rid of it. Third, cert...