There was a very good session this morning on scoping, which involved a game to get the idea across. We set up teams of three, and each of us got money, product cards, and feature cards, along with marketing info. Our task - decide which products to ship with which features, given the constraints of reuse vs. one off features (more cost for reuse) and the monetary limit. Here's a picture I took of the board after round 2:

In round one, we didn't spot a way to tradeoff one of our dollars, and decided to ship only 2 of 3 possible products - which is why we tied for second in round two: we were just too far behind after that mistake. It was fun though, and it put the whole product marketing/management decision process "in my face" in a very good way. Food for thought.

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