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Prioritize a backlog of feature ideas based on impact, effort, risk, and strategic alignment with top 5 recommendations. Use when prioritizing a feature backlog, making scope decisions, or ranking product ideas.

Prioritize a backlog of feature ideas based on impact, effort, risk, and strategic alignment with top 5 recommendations. Use when prioritizing a feature backlog, making scope decisions, or ranking product ideas.

Prioritize Feature Backlog

Evaluate and rank a backlog of feature ideas to identify the top 5 to pursue.

### Context

You are helping prioritize features for **$ARGUMENTS**.

If the user provides files (spreadsheets, backlogs, opportunity assessments), read and analyze them directly.

### Domain Context

For framework selection guidance, see the prioritization-frameworks skill. Key recommendations:

**Opportunity Score** (Dan Olsen, *The Lean Product Playbook*) is recommended for evaluating customer problems: Opportunity Score = Importance × (1 − Satisfaction), normalized to 0–1. High Importance + low Satisfaction = best opportunities. Prioritize **problems (opportunities)**, not solutions.

**ICE** is recommended for quick scoring of initiatives: Impact (Opportunity Score × # Customers) × Confidence × Ease. **RICE** adds Reach as a separate factor for larger teams.

### Instructions

The user will describe their product objective, desired outcomes, and provide feature ideas. Work through these steps:

1. **Understand priorities**: Confirm the product objective and success metrics.

2. **Evaluate each feature** against:

• **Impact**: How much does it move the needle on desired outcomes? Consider Opportunity Score if customer data is available.
• **Effort**: How much development, design, and coordination is required?
• **Risk**: How much uncertainty exists? What assumptions need testing?
• **Strategic alignment**: How well does it fit the product vision and current goals?

3. **Recommend the top 5 features** with:

• Clear ranking (1-5)
• Brief rationale for each selection
• Key trade-offs considered
• What was deprioritized and why

4. **Present as a prioritization table** if helpful.

Think step by step. Save as markdown if the output is substantial.

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### Further Reading

• Kano Model: How to Delight Your Customers Without Becoming a Feature Factory
• The Product Management Frameworks Compendium + Templates
• Continuous Product Discovery Masterclass (CPDM) (video course)