Risk: conflicting win conditions

Project success = satisfying the win conditions of all success-critical stakeholders.

Therefore, failure to reconcile conflicting win conditions creates severe risk of project failure.

Conflicting win conditions can typically be reconciled through principled negotiation.

In some situations, however, it is impossible to reconcile these conflicts. In these situations, the optimal outcome is to identify this fact as early as possible, so that all stakeholders can see that the project is not feasible. This ensures that resources are not wasted in pursuit of an unattainable goal.