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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 two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
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 teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
60-90 min30–60 min per interview45-120 min
Participantsdifferent
2-101 participant per interview2-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
RICE Scores, Ranked List, Assumption LogInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryTrade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides
Tagsno overlap
PrioritizationScoringRoadmapTradeoffs
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions
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