Earned Business Value: See That You Deliver Value to Your Customer
Jo Erskine Hannay, Hans Christian Benestad, Kjetil Strand · IEEE Software · 2017
The order in which you send your backlog items into construction determines when stakeholders can reap benefits from each piece of functionality. This can substantially impact market timing, enterprise earnings, and the project manager survival rate. There are several ways to order a backlog, and sophisticated methods and tools exist to do so-for example, during release planning. But no matter what backlog-ordering scheme you use, you ought to be explicit on the order in which you realize potential business value. To that end, researchers have developed methods to express business value relative to cost in your backlog. They also have devised methods to monitor how much potential business value you're realizing along the way-in addition to the cost expended.