Prioritization

A framework for telling stakeholder urgency and system risk apart in prioritization, and why each needs a different owner in the backlog.

Explains the delta check, a biweekly 20-minute ritual that catches roadmap assumptions that have gone stale before the next quarterly review would even notice.

A one-hour Claude spike outscored a three-day billing fix on RICE — then cost three weeks in review, because the formula never learned to price in what an AI-augmented team actually pays for: trust, not typing time.