Agile Notes No. 72

We are still closing out browser tabs from the last year. We should move on to something different next time. I declared browser tab bankruptcy and am starting fresh in 2025. In today’s episode, lets take a look at acronyms for frameworks.

RAID - Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Decisions - I am a project manager/scrum master by trade. I needed to introduce a new team member to an aspect of project management that they had not experienced before. Or at least had not had a voice in the discussion. I came across this link from Indeed.com. Very easy to digest.

VUCA - Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. This was a new one for me. I think someone I work with/for mentioned this and I had no idea. From the website: Volatility is the dynamic rate of change; uncertainty is a lack of predictability and information; complexity describes interdependent systems that do not exhibit clear cause and effect; and ambiguity acknowledges the difficulty of accurately assessing reality in a complex and volatile landscape. It comes from the military and that tracks with the person I heard this from. (He also promised to start a Dungeons and Dragons game that we are still waiting on but that is a post for another time.)

RICE - My team is working with a client where we are providing strategic-level product guidance. We are not writing any code. It is strange but I am embracing it. The client introduced me to the R.I.C.E. framework. The RICE scoring model is a prioritization framework designed to help product managers determine which products, features, and other initiatives to put on their roadmaps by scoring these items according to four factors. These factors, which form the acronym RICE, are reach, impact, confidence, and effort.

Lastly, not a framework but a concept that I have been hearing lately called “shift left.” I’m not convinced that people using the term actually knows what it means. In software development, it means to try to identify issues as early as possible in your software development life cycle. Here is a good explainer. It is one of those fashionable terms. It implies that your SDLC is linear - “left.” Is it ever linear? Is anything?

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