The Project Ranking Framework v1.01
The Project Ranking Framework just got a tiny little update! 🎉
Now you have space to indicate whether your project idea is connected to another project as it is a part of a bigger project, or not.
The story behind The Project Ranking Framework
In lean, agile, or similar working environments, defining a priority order between many project candidates and aligning your organization to follow that priority order can take a lot of time and effort.
When you have conflicting ideas, overlapping projects that depend on each other, and facts and opinions facing each other, it is hard to get the job done.
There are a lot of great tools in the wild that can help, however, our team felt that none of them would suffice alone as they didn’t fit into our context.
Therefore, we developed our framework to speed up decision-making.
After using it in Emarsys with a team consisting of Product Managers, Engineering Leads and UX Leads for more than six months, we not only saw the value it created but felt the appeal to share it with you.
So we created a more generalized version of it with the hope that you can benefit from it just as we did.
The Framework’s goal is to help you define the importance and value of each of your project ideas. It provides a guideline on how to evaluate them.
Technical complexity of developing the project
Value for internal and external customers, users, and partners
The proportion of your users, customers, and partners impacted by the project
The complexity of the project from a UX/Product design point of view
The strategic importance to the business
Potential risks associated if the project doesn’t get delivered
Compliance with security, legal, finance, etc. requirements
There is an elaborate guide inside the template about how you can use it, so I suggest copying it, and then:
Read through the pages, starting with the one called Instructions
Discuss with your teammates the potential value of the Framework
If you decide to use it, find a suitable slot for the workshop and make preparations according to the guidelines in the template
This is a generalized template, it won’t necessarily fit all your needs.
Feel free to modify the template to suit your needs better!
Huge thanks to Judit Jobbágy, Réka Schmidmajer, Tamás Bíró!
Without their support and invaluable feedback, this framework couldn’t have been developed!
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