You have a backlog of 20 features for a new mobile app.
How do you decide what to build first?
About this question
Category
Product Execution
Subcategory
Prioritization
Difficulty
Easy
Est. time
30 min
What this question helps you practice
This product execution question tests whether you can turn a large feature list into a focused build sequence. A strong answer should clarify goals, group features by theme, define prioritization criteria, make trade-offs, and explain what should be validated first.
How to practice
Clarify product goal and constraints
Ask about target users, business objective, launch timeline, team capacity, and success metrics.
Group and score features
Cluster features into themes, then evaluate value, effort, confidence, risk, and dependencies.
Propose a release plan
Define MVP, next iteration, validation plan, and what you would explicitly defer.
Strong answer signals
Defines a clear goal before applying a scoring framework.
Explains why some attractive features should be deferred.
Balances user value, business impact, engineering effort, and learning speed.
Common mistakes
Applying RICE or MoSCoW mechanically without clarifying the product objective.
Treating all 20 features as independent when dependencies and themes matter.
Avoiding hard trade-offs by saying everything is important.
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