Standard portfolio risk for agile projects
Posted on May 27, 2026 | 4 minutes | Stefan Zils
A practical look at portfolio risk for software backlogs: the four risk layers — development, market, component, global — and what happens to business value when each one fires.
Approaches for software projects
Posted on May 21, 2026 | 5 minutes | Stefan Zils
Business Value Floor 95 for software projects: the 5th percentile of simulated outcomes. Value at Risk reframed as reliably achievable value.
A Product Owner's experiment with financial risk thinking
Posted on May 19, 2026 | 7 minutes | Stefan Zils
FHS is a small Python library that simulates 10,000 futures per feature hypothesis so Product Owners can prioritise on a numerical decision basis — expected value, Business Value Floor 95, worst case, …...
Single trails through the challenging lower valley
Posted on May 19, 2026 | 4 minutes | Stefan Zils
Wilde Endert — narrow trails through the lower valley, with gorges, the Rausch waterfall and slate hills.