This board is to be used after the Enhanced Prioritization or the RICE prioritization boards.
It helps determine the relationships of the items prioritized to ensure that a proper sequence of intervention is found. Some root causes or activities affect positively or negatively the possibility of solving others. It is necessary to know this since the RICE or the Enhanced Prioritization Boards to not consider these relationships factors and then lead to incomplete conclusions if used alone.
Lets propose you have 4 root causes:
1. Performance management is a power trip by supervisors and doesn't always reflect reality
2. Staff don't feel powered and are underutilized need a new project/team based way of working
3. Administrative staff feel they only push paper
4. Hierarchies have created a toxic work environment so need horizontal structures when possible
and we have the sequence from the Enhanced Prioritization table as 2,4,3,1
In each column we describe the relationship that in root cause has on the other
So if #1 is Enabling 2 and 4 and is consistent to 3
and #2 is reinforcing with 1 and 4 and consistent to #3
and #3 is consistent to all other
and #4 is enabling to 2 , consistent to 3 and constraining to 1 then we can draw the conclusion that the best sequence of intervention has changed to be
- #2 is still first
- #3 is second (or at the same time since it has no impact)
-and we need more time/work to decide on # 4 and #1 since I may have to deploy them at the same time (regardless of the score in the previous table I need both problems solved so will have to do jointly but it depends on what happens to the environment for either of these once we start #2 and #3 since things might change that allow us to understand the impacts of 4 and 1 on each other)
