Intake Triage With MoSCoW, Without Fake Must-Haves
Use MoSCoW categories to triage product-operations intake requests under fixed capacity.
Fixed capacity Product Ops has four work slots before Friday's launch planning freeze. Intake has 18 requests and seven self-labeled Must Haves. If every request is critical, the team has no operating rule. MoSCoW Use consequence tests, not request volume MoSCoW separates Must, Should, Could, and Won't for a specific timebox. Product Ops should ask what fails if the request waits. Reflex Accept the requester's label. The queue becomes a set of tradeoffs instead of a ranking of who shouted loudest. Classify by consequence inside the timebox. 01 Timebox 02 Failure 03 Fresh call Set the frame capacity first
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