Reimagine L&D Project Prioritization with RICE

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When prioritizing projects, does the loudest voice get top priority? How do you determine where to spend your time and resources? In this episode, Rory and I use the RICE framework from Intercom to re-imagine project prioritization for L&D.

Take aways

• Effort and Impact count: Audience size and urgency aren't the only things to consider when prioritizing work. Include effort to implement and impact to customers as variables to help make a decision.
• Don't let emotion get the best of you: Using a framework like RICE can help to take the emotion out of project prioritization
• Improve stakeholder conversations with a framework: Implementing a project prioritization framework can help you to have better conversations with stakeholders and the business about the value of new and existing work. 
• Training isn't always the answer:  Overly complex products and customer confusion with a product may not be a training issue. It might be a product problem.

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