[Stakeholders] How do you distinguish mandatory needs, lower-priority requirements and preferences?

Instruction: Explain how you evaluate the need, evidence, obligation and delivery priority behind a stakeholder request without dismissing useful preferences.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate separates requirement validity from priority and confirms the source of mandatory constraints.

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I would separate the underlying need, any binding constraint and its delivery priority. A requirement does not have to be mandatory to be valid. A preference may also express a real usability or adoption need, even if the stakeholder's proposed implementation is optional.

I would ask who needs the behavior, which outcome it supports, how often...

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