Decide Which Projects to Fund Now

The qualitative and quantitative questions allow you to have a conversation about which projects to fund now and which projects to fund later. It will be clear from the questions and their answers that some projects should be funded now. And some should be funded only if the company has more money than they know what to do with. But your managers might run into trouble deciding among some projects—which really should be funded now and which should be funded later—and when could you change those decisions?

Here’s where using agile life cycles (see Agile Life Cycles) and building (and using) a product backlog (see Build a Product Backlog) can really help. If you develop in iterations and always develop the ...

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