PURCHASE-MOMENT GUIDE

Your roadmap meeting is already over capacity. Do this before inviting the room.

1. Write the real limit.Use the delivery capacity available this cycle, not the capacity stakeholders wish existed.
2. Keep only three to seven live options.If an item cannot plausibly enter this cycle, remove it before the decision.
3. Invite roles, not a crowd.Use non-identifying aliases such as Sales, Support, and Engineering.
4. Require every yes to name its no.Each role must spend the same capacity, zero one option, and state the consequence it accepts.
5. Meet only on the sharpest split.After reveal, do not reopen the full backlog. Resolve the highest allocation collision.