Friday Morning, Sam’s Second Week on the Job

On Friday morning, the group reconvened in Conference Room A. Sam posted the flip chart from the previous week on the wall.

“I’m glad we did this with stickies,” enthused Jason. “We’ve got a lot of changes to make.”

“Before we start, let’s make sure we agree on our most important projects,” Sam said.

Sam led the discussion to establish priority for features and fixes. For each feature and current high-priority fix, they discussed the business value and business impact, the risk, and the costs to implement. “That’s good enough for now. Next time we’ll include Marketing. And, we’ll review the lower-priority fixes then. I’m meeting with their director in a couple of days. We’ll discuss how to collaborate ...

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