Priority Sliders

Priority sliders are a great, simple tool to have in your kit bag! Like most of the practices we're exploring, they're really just a tool to help us facilitate a conversation and drive some shared understanding. We use them to drive team consensus in the direction we should go for a given time length.

Running the practice is easy. Just get a small area of a whiteboard and do some brainstorming around key topics of focus for your engagement. They could be things like:

• Functional Completeness: How important is being 100% complete on some piece of app functionality, or are we looking for some sort of thin thread through all the functional areas?
• Security: We know security is important but how much time do we want to invest now in hardening our software?
• Skills Acquisition: Happy, motivated individuals make great teams. Making sure the team has all the expertise to build, operate, and own their software could be important.
• User Experience...