In the “Excellent Preparation” phase, in a kind of final spurt, M, T and P (PO team):

• the project is planned up to the final deadline.
• the decisive requirements are checked for stability and clarity.
• the capacity in the development is checked.
• completed the risk management in order to be able to make the business decision for the project. Better to start with known risks than to spend an extremely long time examining…
• Dependencies, stakeholder management, variants formation, Minimum Viable Product, budget determined.
• set the maturity planning and architecture guardrails.
• provided the project infrastructure.

The goal is to investigate technical and economic feasibility.

Depending on the complexity, the economic and technical investigation can be separated into two phases. Development teams should be burdened with as little additional work as possible in order to disrupt ongoing projects as little as possible.