Practice
You have ten feature requests and capacity for three. How do you choose?
Read first: a sample answer
Fictional sample answer written by JoRoute to show the shape of a strong answer. Do not copy it: replace every detail with what is true for you.
First I would score each request on impact, effort and fit with this quarter's goal, because a shared scoring makes the choice explainable. Then I would review the top five with engineering, since effort estimates change the order. For example, a reporting export scored high on impact and low on effort, so it went in. For the seven we drop, I would tell each requester why and when we will look again. At my last company in Boston I used this scoring for a backlog of 40 requests each quarter; prioritisation is easier to accept when the planning and the reasons are visible.