>Demonstrate understanding of client/customer/manager priorities, frustrations, and necessary tradeoffs: show compassion and supply suggestions for where scope

>Demonstrate understanding of client/customer/manager priorities, frustrations, and necessary tradeoffs: show compassion and supply suggestions for where scope can be narrowed if needed IOW ... it's all ROI - you have to be able to speak to everyone in the room at "their level" about the costs/benefits of the whole operation (see https://antipaucity.com/2015/05/05/what-level-of-abstraction-is-appropriate https://antipaucity.com/2015/05/05/what-level-of-abstraction...)