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One decision, four different lenses

Necessity sets the lane. Urgency sets the order. Severity describes an observed issue.

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Must

Vital to the outcome

06

Highest / 1

Should

High value; can move

01 11 07 04 05

High / 2 · Medium / 3

Could

Opportunistic value

02 09 12

Low / 4

Will Not

No Q1 production build

03 08 10

Lowest / 5

SEVERITY

Critical · Major · Moderate · Minor · Minimal

No documented defect: unassessed here.

SERVICE CLASS

Feature additions · 09 may be perfective · 03/08/10 need a scope decision

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Every candidate has a place

Now + Next are Q1 commitments. Later is uncommitted. All 12 items stay visible.

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Baseline capacity and sequencing

Planning assumptions: 13 weeks, 5 engineers, 40% UX allocation. No delivery date is guaranteed.

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13

4

4

36

8

13 operations + 4 discovery + 4 release reserved

36 planned + 8 free = 44 feature weeks

W1

W3

W5

W7

W9

W11

W13

06 Audit export

8 eng. weeks

11 Account recovery

6 eng. weeks

01 Status tracker

12 eng. weeks

07 Email + SMS

10 eng. weeks

Design: 3.75 / 4 weeks

Build WIP ≤ 2 · Design leads each build

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A change in priority changes the promise

The live presentation lets the panel move the work and see the exchange.

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Outcomes, not a shipping checklist

Proposed targets to agree after a baseline. None of these values are current results.

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25%

lower status-call rate

Calls per 100 active applications Compare similar agency cohorts.

Target: 75% of the baseline rate

Audit ready

Customer accepts a dry-run export

80% recovery

Completed / initiated recovery attempts

95% accepted

Provider acceptance ≠ resident reading

Guardrails: no wrong-recipient disclosure; no worse completion; older-phone / slow-network tests.

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Dependencies make the sequence real

The tracker screen is not the dependency. Reliable, agreed status data is.

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Source audit events

06

Validated audit export

Agreed status model

01

Clear status + next action

07

Email + SMS

11

Safe portal access

Customer-approved fields Historical coverage

Freshness + comprehension Pine County usability check

Consent + safe content Retries + deduplication

Access enables adoption

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Evidence that changes the plan

Discovery earns its place when it can alter a commitment.

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Audit history is missing

Expand 06

Reduce 07 first

Calls reflect stalled work

Bring in 04 dashboard

Replace 07; review 01

Spanish is an essential barrier

Bring in 05 Spanish

Replace 11; recheck UX

Effort rises to 54 weeks

Keep 06 + 11 + 01

Defer 07; demand falls to 38

Protect the audit. Make status understandable. Name every tradeoff.