Question

A product owner has submitted 40 requirements for the next release, but the fixed budget and timeline can realistically accommodate only about 60% of them. The stakeholders are pressuring the team to commit to everything. What should the project manager do FIRST to establish a defensible scope?

Accepted Answer

Facilitate a prioritization session using a technique such as MoSCoW to categorize requirements by business value and necessity

Answer

Commit to all 40 requirements and request additional budget from the sponsor to cover the overage

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Select the 24 requirements the development team believes are easiest to implement within the constraints

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Escalate to the sponsor and ask them to decide which requirements to include