A product owner has more candidate items than judgement, and uses a scoring model to help order them. A stakeholder objects that a formula should not decide the product. How should this be resolved?

• AThe stakeholder is right, so the model should be abandoned.
• BThe model should be applied strictly so that no judgement enters the ordering.
• CThe score informs the decision and the product owner still makes it. The value of the model is that it makes the reasoning legible, so a disagreement becomes an argument about an input rather than an assertion of importance.
• DThe stakeholder should be given a weighting in the model proportional to their budget.