SPaMCAST 658 - Prioritization, Testing, Agile Performance Holarchy, Essays and Conversations

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Software Process and Measurement Cast features an essay on prioritization. We prioritize in order to establish what to work on and when to do it. There is often a difference between assigned priority and the real priority based on when teams start and complete a piece of work. This essay is part of the overall conversation on controlling work entry and answering the question: Are we working on the most important thing?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also have a visit to the QA Corner with Jeremy Berriault. Mr. Berriault and I discussed how testing is integrated into the Agile Performance Holarchy.</span></p> <p><strong>Re-Read Saturday News </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">June and early July are a busy period, this year more so (several birthdays, an anniversary, and family visits). That is a long way around to rationalizing why I am not delivering chapter 2 of</span> <a href= "https://amzn.to/3vEjr55"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Monotasking by Staffan Nöteberg</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.  I am still working with shortlists (chapter 2 has helped my implementation approach.  Meetings (part of the busyness fallacy discussed in Chapter 2) are making using the techniques of panorama cues and panorama sessions difficult once back-to-back meetings begin. We will be back with new content next week with two articles on prioritization and Chapter 2 of Monotasking on Saturday.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week we revisit another favorite from the Re-read archive, the Conclusion of Carol Dweck’s</span> <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345472322/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345472322&linkCode=as2&tag=softprocandme-20&linkId=0bc1a66a97864a8cf814bd969f2f34fa"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Mindset</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">: The New Psychology of Success. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This Week</span></p> <p><a href="