Prioritisation Matrices

Get an overview of different issues, tasks and activities within your team and how to prioritise them effectively. For example, find tasks that have a significant impact and can be done with little effort and earn you some quick wins. Matrices are a good and simple tool to compare two criteria against each other and identify where tasks can be placed in the quadrants.

Instructions

1. Use the pre-defined prioritisation matrices (impact vs. effort, importance vs. urgency), or define your own matrix by choosing two criteria relevant to your team.
2. Make a list of all the tasks/issues that need to be prioritised in your team and allocate them in the matrix. Give team members enough time for brainstorming and sharing.
3. Draw conclusions: discuss tasks and issues in the team and look at the distribution (does everyone have the same opinion, or do they differ a lot?). Decide which tasks should be prioritised, paused, stopped.
4. Define responsibilities and next steps regarding the pursuit of the tasks.

Required Time

1-2h

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