About the Impact-Effort Matrix to Table template
Your team has plenty of ideas, but deciding where to focus can be a challenge. The Impact-Effort Matrix to Table template offers a visual and collaborative workspace to move from a sea of possibilities to a clear, prioritized action plan. It’s designed to help your team make objective decisions together, turning a dynamic prioritization exercise into a structured list of tasks, instantly.
How to use the Impact-Effort Matrix to Table template
Brainstorm your tasks. Add all your potential tasks, features, or ideas to the board as sticky notes.
Run your impact-effort exercise. As a team, drag each sticky note onto the matrix, discussing where it falls in terms of potential impact and the effort required to complete it. Use dot voting to capture team excitement for each task.
Generate your task list. The template automatically converts the stickies from the visual matrix into a clean, organized table, capturing the impact, effort, and vote count for each item.
Create your action plan. With your tasks now neatly sorted and prioritized, you have a clear, actionable backlog to guide your team’s next steps.
Why use the Impact-Effort Matrix to Table template?
Make objective decisions as a team. Move past debate and opinion by using a shared framework to evaluate priorities visually and collaboratively.
Go from visual exploration to action instantly. The template does the work of translating your messy, creative brainstorming session into a structured, organized backlog that’s ready for action.
Align your plan with team energy. By incorporating dot voting, you can see which tasks have the most team excitement and factor that energy into your prioritization plan.
