Two value streams run underneath every transformation: how the business delivers value to customers, and how the organization builds the systems that make that possible. They are almost always mapped separately, by different people, in different languages — which is exactly why the business and the technology drift apart. Putting both on one picture is the artifact that keeps them aligned.
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Mapping Both Value Streams as One Picture

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Two value streams run underneath every transformation: how the business delivers value to customers, and how the organization builds the systems that make that possible. They are almost always mapped separately, by different people, in different languages, which is exactly why the business and the technology drift apart. Putting both on one picture is the artifact that keeps them aligned. Ask the business how it works and you get a story about process: how an order becomes a delivery, how a c...
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Weighted Shortest Job First is a genuinely good way to prioritize — and one of the easiest to turn into theater. The arithmetic is the trivial part. The honesty of the inputs is the whole game, and it is exactly the part organizations skip.
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WSJF Without the Theater (Score Your Backlog, Free)

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Weighted Shortest Job First is a genuinely good way to prioritize, and one of the easiest to turn into theater. The arithmetic is the trivial part. The honesty of the inputs is the whole game, and it is exactly the part organizations skip. Prioritization is where most programs quietly go to war. Everyone's feature is the most important; every deadline is the hardest; every team believes its work should be first. Into that fight walks Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) with a promise that soun...
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