Your development team is working on a new software product. The market competition is fierce and time-to-market is critical. The stakeholders want to see a working product as soon as possible to begin receiving user feedback. As a PMP certified project manager, how should you guide the team to ensure that the first increment of the product delivers the core functionality needed by the customer?
Guide the team to use user stories to identify the smallest set of features that will constitute a usable and marketable product.
Recommend avoiding stakeholder consultations until a more complete version of the product is available to avoid biasing their opinions.
Advise the team to focus on backend optimizations to ensure that future increments can be developed more rapidly.
Instruct the team to include as many requested features as possible in the first increment to make the product more appealing.