Metadata
- Author: blackswanfarming.com
- Full Title:: MoSCoW method
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Company culture,
- URL:: https://blackswanfarming.com/prioritisation/
- Finished date:: 2023-09-15
Highlights
The problem with MoSCoW is that you invariably end up with most of the list under the “Must have” category. Trying to get multiple stakeholders to agree over what the must haves are is a bit like an NP-complete problem. (View Highlight)
One alternative is the Equity model. The basis of this approach is an attempt at fairness. Usually this is done on an annual basis, where a percentage of development budget is allocated to different departments, stakeholders or large projects. This approach is still largely blind to value (View Highlight)
Making this worse, most organisations are not organised along value streams, so there are significant dependencies between teams who usually have no way of making the trade-offs between different demand streams, other than by responding to whoever shouts the loudest (View Highlight)