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Risk management

A collection of 3 posts
Ease/value ranking
Collaboration

Ease/value ranking

The ease/value ranking is a great way to whittle a big list of product or strategy ideas down to a prioritised backlog, or as a starting point for discussion.
01 Nov 2024 9 min read
Technical debt isn't like financial debt
Software

Technical debt isn't like financial debt

I hope you weren’t hoping for a blanket answer to the question of exactly when to pay off technical debt. If you were, the answer is Tuesday. Almost all interesting decisions are about risks and trade-offs. This is a framework for making our intuitions about technical debt more rigorous.
09 Feb 2020 8 min read
Running a Premortem
Management

Running a Premortem

A Premortem refocused the hardest death-march I’ve been on, and another one years later was a key step in planning for a complicated (and ultimately successful) major fund-raise. If all goes well, it’ll help highlight your biggest fears, and proactively figure out steps for how to defuse them.
09 Feb 2020 5 min read
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