Leadership wants all planned features by a fixed date, but capacity is insufficient. How would you negotiate scope?

Instruction: Calculate the capacity gap and propose a feasible option without promising unverified productivity gains.

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Fictional two-week delivery window: the team has 40 engineer-days available after support and testing allocations. Required security work is 10 engineer-days; core workflow is 20; optional reporting is 18. These estimates already include review and are not parallelization promises. Security and core workflow are mandatory for launch. The sponsor owns scope; engineering validates feasibility.

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The full request is 48 engineer-days against 40, an eight-day capacity gap. The required security and core workflow total 30, leaving ten engineer-days of stated capacity...

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