Roger Turnau - Taming the Backlog with Cost of Delay, A Conversation, SPaMCAST 796

Published: Feb. 25, 2024, 10 p.m.

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 796 features a conversation with Roger Turnau. Roger and I talk about prioritization using the cost of delay. Every organization and team I have ever worked with has a backlog of work and lots of people screaming that their piece of the backlog is the most important. The cost of delay is an important tool to filter out the noise and it can be as nuanced as you need it to be. Roger Turnau is an Agile Coach at Accenture. His mission is to empower and inspire leaders and organizations to create an environment where high performance feels effortless. His approach to achieving this combines an emphasis on psychological safety, building trust throughout the organization, and close attention to KPIs, OKRs and flow metrics to ensure durable results. For the past five years, Roger has specialized in enterprise and DevOps coaching, product development, and Agile transformations. Contact Information LinkedIn:\xa0 Website: (Blog) Last Call for Cohort 1! Slay Work Intake Chaos: Become a Master in 5 Weeks! \xa0 Based on Tom Cagley and Jeremy WIllet\u2019s new book , learn to diagnose and solve work intake anti-patterns to stop drowning in work. Work intake is the biggest challenge facing organizations today. If you don\u2019t get work intake right, you won\u2019t be in business for very long. A 5-week cohort-based course, meeting weekly for an hour, includes teaching, peer feedback & discussion, feedback from the authors, time for Q&A, templates, and an electronic copy of our book, Mastering Work Intake: From Chaos to Predictable Delivery. Are you ready to commit?\xa0 Join our cohort-based workshop. The first cohort is starting on March 1st, 2024. Details at \xa0 Re-read Saturday News This week we tackle two chapters of . Chapter 11, \u201cDifferent Sampling Methods\u201d. The chapter points out that random sampling techniques are just the tip of the iceberg in approaches. Chapter 12, \u201dWhat Percentile Do I Choose?\u201d, discusses whether you always need to quote the 85th percentile range. The short answer is no but like most things, there is more to it than that.\xa0 Buy a copy and get reading \u2013 .\xa0\xa0 Week 1: \u2013 Week 2: \u2013 Week 3: \xa0 \u2013 \xa0 Week 4: \u2013 Week 5: \u2013 \xa0 Week 6: \u2013 \xa0 Week 7: \u2013 \xa0 Week 8: \u2013 \xa0 Week 9: \u2013 \xa0 Week 10: - \xa0\xa0 Week 11: - Next SPaMCAST\xa0 In the Software Process and Measurement Cast 797 we ponder the question, should the process save us from ourselves in every circumstance?\xa0 We will also have a visit from Jeremy Berriault who brings his Evolutionary Agilst\u2122 Column to the podcast