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Requirement clarification during project kickoff resolves users, scope, feature backlog, services, data shapes, and design direction. By applying structured questioning and confirmation gates, teams establish a shared product vision and constraints before creating architecture documents or implementation plans.

Aligning on feature scope during a project kickoff requires identifying unresolved decisions and asking only questions that cannot be safely defaulted. This approach ensures team alignment on goals, users, and constraints before advancing to specification or build phases.

Identifying unresolved architecture decisions involves resolving the app skeleton for greenfield projects by systematically questioning users, scope, services, and data shapes. This process establishes design direction and constraints before significant software work begins.

You do not need to define the entire feature backlog beforehand; the requirement clarification process surfaces unresolved decisions and establishes the feature backlog during the kickoff. It applies structured questioning to align expectations and select safe default assumptions.

You should not use a structured requirement clarification process for trivial changes or well-defined maintenance tasks where scope and architecture are already established. It is designed for large feature planning and greenfield project kickoffs requiring alignment on goals and design direction.