Management & Thinking
ProRICE Prioritization
RICE 優先級排序 · Source: Sean McBride · Intercom
A pile of candidate features / projects / ideas competing for slots — converting gut feel into comparable scores
Core Concept
Intercom (2016): score each candidate on four axes — Reach (people affected per time period), Impact (per-person impact, usually on a 0.25/0.5/1/2/3 scale), Confidence (your certainty in the first three estimates, 0–100%), Effort (person-months). Formula: Score = R × I × C ÷ E. The point isn't precision — it's forcing each dimension to be estimated separately, preventing one strong gut feeling from dominating, and surfacing the fact that "my confidence is actually 30%."
Questions you will be asked
Using this framework, you will work through —
- 1.List the 3–8 candidates you're comparing this round.
- 2.Reach: how many people will each item touch/affect within a fixed window (e.g. next quarter)?
- 3.Impact: how much will each affected person be impacted? Use 3 / 2 / 1 / 0.5 / 0.25.
- …and 3 more