What should a struggling software development team do in a world of seemingly infinite improvement options?

I currently coach a system administration team. Anyone who has worked in one knows the constant attention required and the difficulty to find  uninterrupted time. (phone ringing constantly..) 

Doing kanban, we do iteration plannings every week and they need to be fast and accurate and we only need to keep a 45 min window. We have experimented with different approaches, and this has been the best working.

In Scrum it is often perceived that planning takes place on sprint planning day. Getting the required parties in the same place and do planning is a good way of making real time decisions. But getting people together is a dounting or impossible task and this also neglects some of the thought processes that needs to take place before stories are estimatable.

Jag har vagt känt till begreppet Prediction Markets, där man sammanfattar många individers förutspåelser om aktiekurser, vilken teknik som kommer att lyckas och misslyckas, och andra svåra frågor där enskilda individers kunskap ofta inte är tllräcklig, eller något man generellt sett inte litar på. Vem litar på enskilda aktieanalytiker, till exempel. Stötte nyligen på en