MoSCoW
Business & Finance abbreviation · Project Management
| Stands for | Must have, should have, could have, won't have |
|---|---|
| Categories | Business & Finance |
MoSCoW stands for Must have, should have, could have, won't have, a project management abbreviation.
Prioritization technique that sorts requirements into four categories: must have (essential), should have (important but not vital), could have (desirable) and won't have this time.
Example: Using MoSCoW, offline mode moved from "must" to "could."
Usage notes
Created by Dai Clegg at Oracle in 1994 and adopted by the DSDM agile method; the lowercase o's are added only to make it pronounceable. Teams often cap must-haves at about 60% of effort to protect delivery dates.
Related abbreviations
More project management abbreviations
- EV – Earned value
- EVM – Earned value management
- FF – Finish-to-finish
- FFP – Firm-fixed-price
- FS – Finish-to-start
- LOE – Level of effort
- OBS – Organizational breakdown structure
- PERT – Program Evaluation and Review Technique
- PI – Program increment
- PID – Project initiation documentation
- PM – Project management
- PMBOK – Project Management Body of Knowledge