Prioritizing requirements

Entender a tu cliente para comprender los requerimientos y poder priorizarlos con certeza es la clave de todo proyecto. La priorización y estimación son muy importantes para planear tus metas.

Plan de desarrollo alcanzable

¿Qué significa que un plan de desarrollo sea realizable? Tener metas ambiciosas es muy importante, pero más importante es alcanzarlas.

• Align your goals with the customer’s goals.
• Setting ambitious goals.
• At the beginning of each iteration, make sure you have the right set of features and that you’re doing what you’re supposed to do.
• Stay customer-focused at all times, only the customer knows what is needed. User stories take priority based on your customer’s decisions.
• Help the customer make decisions.

Definición de iteraciones

¿Cómo serán las iteraciones? ¿Cuánto tiempo durarán? Define estas cuestiones para establecer el plan de desarrollo.

• The shorter your iterations are, the better the chance you have to catch any modifications or any unexpected details quickly.
• This way you can adjust your plan and change what you’re doing if necessary before reaching a milestone.
• Each iteration can during 15 or 30 days, normally.

Velocidad - Tiempo productivo

Las personas no son robots, no esperes que el 100% de su tiempo sea productivo y estén trabajando.

• Add a little reality into the plan.
• People have different personal issues to deal with such as holidays, sickness, and paperwork.
• Factor in all those little things that can happen and prevent you from reaching 100% velocity.
• Velocity is how fast your team can actually work. Maybe, 70% of their time will be productive.
• Be confident in your plans by applying velocity and not overworking your team.

Priorizar con el cliente

Escuchar a tu cliente y trabajar en conjunto es súper importante para definir prioridades y tomar decisiones.

• These are some examples of questions you can use to understand your customer’s priorities:
  • What is the most important piece of functionality to you?
  • What is the first feature you would like to see in the design?
  • We believe these user stories are really important. Do you agree?
  • Once you have reached an agreement with the customer, constant communication with her is key.

No nos cansaremos de repetir que la comunicación es esencial y es el factor número uno de los fracasos en los proyectos. Comunícate con tu cliente y trabaja en conjunto.

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Contribución creada por: Kevin Fiorentino.