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How to run your first RICE scoring session

Process showing six steps of a RICE scoring session: pre-work, a 90-minute workshop, confidence audit, effort sign-off, rank and review, re-score quarterly.
The confidence audit keeps the ranking honest: no named source, no score above 50%.
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A six-step plan for running a RICE prioritization session with a cross-functional team. It covers the pre-work that standardizes reach and impact, a 90-minute silent-scoring workshop, an audit of every high confidence score, engineering sign-off on effort, a leadership review of the top five, and re-scoring every quarter. Use it as the agenda for your first session.

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What's in this process

  1. Pre-work: Standardize the Reach time window and the Impact anchors. Send them out 48 hours before.
  2. Workshop, 90 minutes: Score 10 to 15 ideas as a cross-functional team. Everyone votes silently on each variable, then you discuss the gaps.
  3. Confidence audit: Anything above 80% needs a named evidence source. No source, and it drops to 50%.
  4. Effort sign-off: The engineering lead signs off every Effort estimate before a score is final.
  5. Rank and review: Sort by RICE score and review the top 5 with leadership. Top items go to next quarter's roadmap.
  6. Re-score quarterly: Reach, confidence and effort all change. Score again every cycle.

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