Quick reference: the tradeoff menu
Use a quick-reference deck to pick scope, time, quality, or resource tradeoffs.
The four levers What are the four levers when a request exceeds capacity? Scope, time, quality, and resources. Use quality carefully and explicitly. Do not silently lower the bar. When the stakeholder says it is high priority A senior stakeholder adds valuable work to a full plan. This is high priority, so we need it this sprint. Your line I agree it is high priority. To bring it into this sprint, we need to move another high-priority item or add review capacity. Everything is high priority, so I will just work late. It validates importance while refusing the fantasy that…
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