Product development teams have to deal with multiple stakeholders. They each have their own set of priorities. That's natural. Reconciling these priorities into a single-threaded product backlog can be a thankless task. In theory, "cost of delay" based prioritization techniques should let us avoid "HiPPO prioritization". In practice, these techniques help only so much. How do you validate and normalize costs assigned by different stakeholders? The whole process is vulnerable to false rigor...