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Polly wants a deliverable (sopuli.xyz)

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[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 112 points 7 months ago

I've met this bird. It only prioritizes issues as urgent; when interacted with, it'll say "yes, this is part of MVP"

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 75 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'll kill you , you stupid bird!

If everything is high priority, nothing is high priority!

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 39 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I had a list of 30 items I had to prioritize with clients the other day. We ended up with about two dozen Priority 1s and the rest were 2s.

So I had to go back and say, "let's prioritize the 1s" and at least got them to agree to 1.A, 1.B, and 1.C.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 31 points 7 months ago

This is why I really don't think absolute priority values work. I much prefer relative priority, i.e. dragging cards into an order.

Of course, the challenge with that is in clarifying that it's not a strict order in which tasks will be tackled.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

You are a wizard.

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago

I have had multiple managers who are incapable of understanding this.

[-] Vent@lemm.ee 48 points 7 months ago

Could be worse, mine have started saying "the MVP must be feature complete and 100% bug free" but there's a 0% chance there's enough budget for that.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 17 points 7 months ago

And what sort of an MVP is feature-complete and completely bugless?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

Wayne Gretzky? 🤷

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 9 points 7 months ago

Minimum Viable Player

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 5 points 7 months ago

The one in the manager's mind, that also isn't actually an MVP because sales over-promised and now you have to find a way to deliver.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

Ahh, sales…

The best sales folks are the ones who promise customers things that are literally impossible (and I do mean literally, eg. promising something that essentially solves the halting problem). Those are always fun to sort out

[-] BallsandBayonets@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I can deliver completely bugless. The secret is code that doesn't do anything, acts the same as code that doesn't exist.

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