Artifact: RICE-vs-MoSCoW Reconciliation — Kestrel SSO
SSO login is "Must" in MoSCoW but ranks last by RICE -- exercises co-07, co-08. Kestrel is a fictional product; every quoted number, question, or finding here is an illustrative, constructed example, not real data or a real transcript.
Reconciliation: RICE assumes value scales with the number of people affected (Reach × Impact) -- fine for features whose value is genuinely diffuse across the user base. SSO login is not that kind of feature: it gates one specific, already-signed enterprise contract worth more in annual revenue than the entire rest of this quarter's roadmap combined. Losing that contract is a binary, all-or-nothing outcome that RICE's per-user-averaged math cannot represent -- 150 "reached" users understates a decision that is really "keep or lose one large deal." SSO stays "Must," overriding its RICE rank, because the business necessity behind it is contractual and gated, not a matter of diffuse user impact.
Last updated July 17, 2026