A have recently been called to facilitate a prioritization process for an upcoming MVP (Minimum Viable Product). A nice approach that presents formal results and works in real world is to use a prioritization worksheet as described in the book “A Project guide to UX design” by Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler http://projectuxd.com/.
A created a more “automated” version of this worksheet in google drive.
Prioritization Worksheet (Google Drive Link)
where I used the following rules:
The worksheet was completed by 4 key members:
- Business importance: Product Manager
- User importance: UX Designer
- Technical feasibility: Software Architect
- Resource feasibility: Project Manager
Each member rated his field by the rating rules and then a custom formula applied:
(Business + User importance) – (Technical + Resource feasibility) = Feature score
Features are then prioritized by their score which is a 4 members opinion.
Implications:
Each member should have conducted the required research and rate based on validated knowledge.
- business importance requires defined and clear business goals
- user importance requires user research (at least)
- technical feasibility requires technology knowledge and high-level architecture
- resource feasibility requires knowledge of team performance and project planning.
Additionally the initial feature set has to be well defined. New feature ideas should then pass the same process.
The results are presented below:
We processed in implementing the features with score over 0.
Value: we decided in a formal level on what features we should focus for this MVP.
What’s next? Create a prototype and test it with real users.
Andreas Papaderos