One of the key success factors of Scrum is a prioritized product backlog. Somehow I thought this might be easy, boy was I wrong. I’m trying to figure out why it is that I cannot get a single prioritized list of work out of business and I came up with these observations:
- People don’t want to communicate with each other
- People are not aligned to the common vision/goal
- People do not understand, or don’t believe in, the value of prioritization
- IT BA’s are interfering with Business’ prioritization