Choose What to Stabilize
To decide what to stabilize, look at your work now. Are you already working in timeboxes? If not, start there. Projects using any life cycle can use timeboxes. Moving your projects to working in timeboxes is the easiest start at working to deliver small increments of value that will allow you to reassess each project fairly as you manage the portfolio.
Once you’re working in timeboxes, are your teams able to meet their commitment to what they intend to accomplish in a timebox? My experience is that until teams are allowed to work together for several iterations without changes to the timebox’s content or team makeup, it’s impossible for a team to accurately estimate what they can accomplish in a timebox. If your teams ...
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