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What is Moscow Rule In Scrum?

Posted by editor on November 29, 2007

Moscoq MoSCoW rule

When working with stories from a product backlog especially during release planning, Write all the epic stories ( the main use cases ) and instead of stank ranking them numerically, apply the

  • Must Have,
  • Should Have
  • Could Have
  • Wont Have

rule to each story . i.e. ask the product manager to write a M S C or W in front of every story. Sometimes product owners find it tough to apply numbers but a grouping like this is much easier for a first pass.

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2 Responses to “What is Moscow Rule In Scrum?”

  1. PhilippeAntras Says:
    January 2, 2008 at 8:45 pm

    Hello again Vibhu,

    This is really an interesting rule, where does it comes from ?

    Thanks for sharing,
    Philippe

  2. editor Says:
    January 3, 2008 at 5:45 am

    This is a rule that gets mention in many books. Check out Agile retrospectives by Diana Larson

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