When deciding your product’s future, you have to collect data and opinions, analyze, and estimate issues and ideas. Unless, of course, you want your prioritization to be a gut feeling show in a zoo with HiPPOs, RHiNOs, and ZEbRAs.
A good prioritization framework will help you structure the data and be consistent. Deriving your own requires months of careful prioritization when you finally begin to understand how to detect small rare problems. And you have to define your priorities right from the start—a vicious circle.
Thanks to the community, that circle is easy to break. There are dozens of frameworks proven by hundreds of great teams. In this article, we want to discuss one of the most popular—RICE Score—why most use it incorrectly, when it really works and when it becomes useless.
Source: Is Using RICE Score Actually Increasing Productivity? – DZone Agile