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To clarify ambiguous project requirements, use an interactive intent discovery process that extracts success criteria, target audience, and constraints through focused questioning before planning begins. This replaces assumptions with a shared understanding of the true goal.

The best way to align stakeholders on scope definition is conducting an alignment checkpoint that restates the confirmed intent, including outcomes, constraints, and out-of-scope items. This ensures shared understanding before implementation starts.

To gather missing requirements for a conventional feature, apply one-question interviewing to identify missing details like who the request is for, why it matters now, and what success looks like. This prevents wasted effort on incorrect assumptions.

Yes, intent clarification works for resolving underspecified requests like building a dashboard by determining whether you need a tracker, a report, or a metric view. It identifies the true intent through interactive back-and-forth questioning.

You should not use intent discovery questioning when a request is already fully specified with clear success criteria, defined audience, and explicit constraints. It is specifically designed for ambiguous or convention-driven asks where details are missing.