Steve Neiderhauser:

What is a useful priority?

It helps you decide what to do today, and what not to do?

Everyone understands why these priorities make sense for the company.

While helping Scrum teams understand Agile practices and complete projects, I developed several workshops.

Story Writing Workshop (team and PO generate list of user stories)

Affinity Estimates (estimate many stories quickly and identify scope of project)

Project Kickoff and Envisioning

Product Vision (includes games like Product Box)

Backlog Refinement

Kanban Pizza Game (understand power of WIP limits)

User Story Mapping (make product backlog visible)

Minimum Viable Product (includes exercises to identify MVP)

When you have a question about a workshop, simply leave a comment and I'll provide more details.

After studying traditional project management, I never felt like I had a good set of tools to lead people.

When I read Lean Software Development by Mary Poppendieck, I discover all kinds of tools for effective leadership.

Of Mary's 22 tools, I especially like these.

1. Seeing Waste
3. Feedback
4. Iterations
6. Set-based Development
7. Options Thinking
11. Queuing Theory
14. Motivation

And one final tip...

Change as Fast as the World Changes

Yesterday's wisdom becomes today's obstacle and tomorrow's folly.

Steve Neiderhauser