How clear is your product vision?
On a scale of 1 to "1000 songs in your pocket", how strong is your product vision?On a scale of 1 to “1000 songs in your pocket”, how strong is your product vision?
Without a clear product vision, engineering teams will spend a lot of effort force ranking backlog items using something like a weighted decision matrix.
With a clear product vision, this sort of force ranking becomes virtually irrelevant. A good product vision will virtually answer the question “will this backlog item move us closer to our goal?” for you in the majority of cases.