APPENDIX ATools to Prioritize Requirements

BUSINESS DECISIONS ARE DRIVEN by priorities, with tradeoffs being made that allow for sensible allocations of budget and time. All too often, prioritization is a purely political process that yields inconsistent or even illogical results. The tools discussed in this appendix are designed to produce prioritization that incorporates the input of lots of users, yet produces consistent (and maybe even defendable) results for SFDC projects.

Prioritizing Project Requirements

Prioritizing requirements for IT work is something of a black art, but there can be no more important thing to get right in a project. It doesn’t matter how tightly executed or beautifully presented a feature is, if it is an unimportant ...

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