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Question: As a project manager, you know the importance of meeting the objectives of your project. The MoSCoW approach can be helpful in ensuring that your Agile project meets its objectives. Select one of the aspects of the MoSCoW approach and identify one key challenge with that approach for the project from Week 2. Justify your response.
After posting your response, respond to at least one of your classmates' suggestions.
Please respond to student's comment below:

The Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM) prioritizes work and iterations through MoSCoW, which includes Must haves, Should haves, Could haves, and Won't haves. In the Week 2 discussion, the project involved a mobile application that provides near real-time updates regarding an agency's status to assist in reducing crime. Using MoSCoW, the "must haves" are typically addressed first, and the "won't haves" are continually left for a future iteration, if they are ever selected at all. The "won't haves" are identified as such because they don't provide significant value to the overall project.

However, in a product like a safety and crime awareness app, any unimplemented feature may result in inadequate notification or reporting and could adversely affect life and property. Although the selection process may be determined on a percentage of the overall population that may be affected, the decision to not implement could mean a lost human life. Imagine deciding not to include a feature may affect a mere 1% of the total coverage area or population. In a city with one million people, TEN THOUSAND people would not benefit from the coverage.

I'm sure decisions like this are made daily, where the dollars vs. numbers don't make fiscal sense. I would not want to be the one to place such a feature's card in the "won't have" column.