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Paper illustration of a scoring table with four factor columns, a calculator and three ordered initiative cards.
Product Strategy
RICE Scoring
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
Purposedifferent
When many initiatives compete for the same resources, it brings reach, impact, confidence, and effort into one shared ranking. It makes prioritization economically connectable.When a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures.With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
60-90 min45-90 min45-120 min
Participantsdifferent
2-103-82-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
RICE Scores, Ranked List, Assumption LogImpact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery OptionsTrade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides
Tagsno overlap
PrioritizationScoringRoadmapTradeoffs
OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning
TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions
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