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Backlog Prioritization: Value-vs-Complexity Ranking

Use this when your backlog has more than 20 items and you're not sure which 5-8 actually matter for this sprint. Your Product Owner is drowning in requests. Your team needs to know what to say no to.

From the article 7 AI Prompts for Sprint Planning: Backlog to Execution

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For each of these backlog items, rate on a scale of 1-10:
- Business value (1 = nice-to-have, 10 = blocks revenue)
- Complexity (1 = one-line fix, 10 = architectural change)
- Dependencies (1 = none, 10 = blocked by external team)

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Now, which items should we prioritize first? Which ones should we defer 
until we have more clarity? What's the one item that's high value but 
we keep deferring because it 'feels' hard?
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