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Requirements and product · Level Advanced · Product Prioritisation Product
Prioritisation: beyond urgent-important
A backlog where everything is urgent.
Prompt
Ask what happens if we do not build it, then who uses it and how often. If those have no answer, it does not get scheduled.
Task: A backlog where everything is urgent.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- reach and frequency
- implementation cost
- what is lost by not doing it
- current focus
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- rank by reach times frequency over cost
- separate mandatory compliance items
- three items that can be dropped forever
- the one thing to do this week
[Process]
1. Reconstruct what the user actually does
2. Decide whether this is a need or a proposed solution
3. Offer build, do not build, or another way
4. Write checkable acceptance criteria
5. Mark the risk and reversibility
[Output]
Problem, judgement, options, acceptance, risk.
[Do not]
- Never copy the requester's solution
- No scheduling without a usage scene
- No acceptance criteria like 'improve experience'
- Never three features at onceWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- reach and frequency
- implementation cost
- what is lost by not doing it
- current focus
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- rank by reach times frequency over cost
- separate mandatory compliance items
- three items that can be dropped forever
- the one thing to do this week