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Team Design Patterns

Common Design Patterns There are several common patterns for defining organisational and team...

Skills vs Roles

It is a silo problem When we structure our teams based on roles not skills we strike a bunch of...

Concept of Prioritisation

Multitasking is the problem, we should focus on one thing at a time Data teams should only work on one thing at a time, but the problem is they often don’t know what the most important thing is. Stakeholders know the...

Core Prioritisation Patterns

Eisenhower Matrix The Eisenhower Matrix, also known as the Urgency-Importance Matrix, is a simple two-by-two matrix that helps prioritise work based on their urgency and importance. Work is divided into four...

Fixed Mindset Prioritisation Patterns

There are a number of popular fixed mindset prioritisation patterns. MoSCow The Moscow prioritisation pattern is often used to prioritise tasks, features, or requirements in software development. The pattern consists...

AgileData prioritisation patterns

There are a number of prioritisation patterns we have found in the agile and product domains which we have proven are useful when used to prioritise work in the data domain. We use the Information Product Canvas and...

Levels of Prioritisation

When looking at the AgileData patterns for prioritisation you can see they are all based on prioritising Information Products based on the Information Product Canvas template or Data Platform Features based on the Data...

Prioritisation Anti-Patterns

Delegated stakeholders Stakeholders are busy people and they may try and delegate their attendance at the prioritisation workshop to somebody that reports to them. But while they will delegate the attendance, they...

Self Organising Team Prioritisation

In an AgileData Way of Working the AgileData team are responsible and accountable to prioritise the work of tasks that are to be done. They are focused on the operational and personal levels of prioritisation....

Concept of a Persona

The concept of a Persona A persona is a model of a fictional character that represents a user or customer.  Personas are based on research about the target users or consumers, they are usually given a name, a picture,...