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Everything is a P1

So many organizations have trouble setting the priority of a story. The default is to make everything a top priority. Teams might use different monikers for this: Priority 1 or P1 P0 or P00… Highest Critical #1 Whatever an organization uses to denote criticality, in this article we are going to use P1 for the penultimate criticality assigned to a …

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The Danger of Agenda-less Meetings

I receive many meeting requests. Way too many. I decline most of them. My first pass at declining meetings are those without an agenda. I also call these cold meetings. Meetings can be valuable to: Give or elicit feedback Brainstorm solutions However, I will not attend agenda-less or cold meetings for several reasons. We need to prepare A key ingredient …