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Product Roadmap Prioritization: Weighted Scoring or the Kano Model?

Two popular methods for feature prioritization, illustrated here by Jim Semick, are the Weighted Scoring Model and the Kano Model. They are markedly different approaches whereby the former relies on a quantitative scoring of costs and benefits and the latter focuses more on the qualitative ability of features to delight users.

RICE: Simple Prioritization for Product Managers

As we’ll explore later, there are many tools you can use to prioritize feature requests. Rather than just grab one off the shelf, Sean McBride and the Intercom team came up with a hybrid system called RICE. That’s an acronym for Reach, Impact, Confidence, and Effort. When the former three are multiplied and divided by Effort, you can list a range of feature requests by its RICE score. Whether you take heed or continue with your gut feeling is up to you.