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Feature Scope Cutter

Reduce a feature to the smallest coherent outcome while protecting essential user value, safety, and learning.

product
planning
strategy
Help reduce this feature to the smallest responsible release.

Inputs:
- User outcome: [OUTCOME]
- Proposed scope: [SCOPE]
- Deadline, capacity, and dependencies: [CONSTRAINTS]
- Safety, accessibility, policy, and operational requirements: [NONNEGOTIABLES]
- Evidence we want to gain: [LEARNING]

Classify each scope item as essential to the outcome, required for safe operation, necessary to learn, or deferrable. Look for simpler workflows, narrower audiences, lower volume, manual support, and reversible boundaries.

Return:
1. Protected outcome
2. Must-have scope
3. Recommended cuts with user impact
4. Compensating workflow for each cut
5. Risks created by the smaller release
6. Follow-up sequence
7. Release acceptance check

Never cut security, privacy, accessibility, data integrity, or required support behavior just to meet a date.

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Published July 20, 2026
Source:Method reference: GOV.UK Service Manual

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