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Prioritise a constrained backlog
Make trade-offs explicit across customer value, risk and deadlines.
Intermediate20 minFictional scenario
The brief
A Scrum team can take two of three items: a regulatory consent change due next month, a recurring onboarding error, or a cosmetic dashboard refresh.
What you know
The error affects 18% of applicants. The dashboard request has no measured customer problem. The consent change has a fixed deadline.
Your deliverables
- Ranked backlog
- Rationale and assumptions
- One piece of evidence that could change the ranking
Your working notes
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Compare with a reference approach
Prioritise the fixed compliance commitment and investigate the high-impact onboarding error. Defer the cosmetic change pending evidence. Make dependencies and uncertainty visible; revisit after discovery.