Rate each stakeholder's confidence
Product, engineering, and business each rate their scope confidence 1-10.
HIDDEN MISALIGNMENT CHECK
Stakeholder Scope Alignment Check
Compare product, engineering, and business confidence in the scope to catch misalignment risk that a high average score can hide.
- Uses your inputs in a transparent calculation
- Instant result with practical next steps
- No signup required
Planning guidance only. Validate important decisions with customer evidence and your delivery team.
YOUR INPUTS
Build your result
Complete every field. The result updates only when you choose Calculate.
How it works
See the spread, not just the average
The tool computes the gap between the highest and lowest score, since a high average can still hide a large spread.
Get a misalignment risk call
Well aligned, some misalignment, or high risk — with the specific stakeholders driving the gap named.
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Frequently asked questions
Why not just average the three scores?
A high average can hide real disagreement — for example product at 9, engineering at 9, and business at 3 averages to 7, which looks fine, but business is clearly not on the same page. This tool flags that spread explicitly.
What should I do if the spread is large but the average is high?
Treat it as a warning sign, not a false alarm. Get the highest and lowest-scoring stakeholders together to compare what each believes is actually in scope.
Who should provide these three scores?
Whoever owns the decision on each side — typically a product lead, an engineering lead, and a business/exec sponsor. Self-reported confidence, not a guess by one person on behalf of all three.
How is the score calculated?
Alignment score = 100 minus (spread ÷ 9 × 100), where spread is the difference between the highest and lowest of the three scores on a 1-10 scale. It's transparent arithmetic, not a hidden model.
Is a spread of 2-3 points always fine?
Usually, yes — some variation in confidence is normal. The tool flags spreads of 4+ points, especially when they occur alongside a high average, as worth a direct conversation.
How We Compare
| Feature | MVPHub | Google Sheets | Notion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flags hidden misalignment behind a high average | Included | Not included | Not included |
| Names which stakeholder is driving the gap | Included | Not included | Not included |
| Instant score | Included | Limited | Limited |
| No setup required | Included | Limited | Included |
Sheets and Notion can record three confidence scores in a table, but neither computes a spread-based misalignment risk or flags when a high average is masking disagreement.
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