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Method 10: Urgency Codes

Prioritize your features based on their urgency as a weighted scoring.
Inspired by weighted scoring model and hospitals emergency codes
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Change: weighting criteria (under the table), Business Value, Urgency Time, and Urgency Risk
See results auto-ordered in: Urgency Rank
Request Urgency Ranking
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Request Name
Value & Cost
Time & Effort
Risk & Opportunity
Priority Score
Priority Rank
Priority Score Math
1
F2: Import functionality
8
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80
2
F1: New billing page
7
​
65
3
BNS-684: Notification panel redesign
7
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65
4
F3: Video calls
6
​
55
5
F8: Multi-location Management
5
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45
6
F4: Security upgrade
4
​
35
7
F7: Localization of mobile app
3
​
30
8
F5: Item comments
2
​
15
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Weighting List

Urgency scoring criteria - total
100
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score point (a high number affects the score positively)
Value & Cost - weight:
50
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explanation: +value & -cost
Time & Effort - weight:
25
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explanation: +time & +effort
Risk & Opportunity - weight:
25
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explanation: -Risk & +Opportunity

How Scoring Works on the Urgency Ranking table

Rename and define the weight of each opportunity.
Use a scale of 1-5 to rank each opportunity in a criteria.
follow the (Urgency Rank) and the auto-sorted results.

Urgency Codes Map

-do NOT abuse them, or else it will fireback-
Urgency Codes Table
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Code Name
Rank Range
Priority
Responce Time
Description
Example
1
Code Red
from 9 to 10
Severe
Look at this NOW
(Imediate action)
Incidents, bugs, or issues with severe impact on the business (operation or sales)
SEO Store issue
Metabase went down
2
Code Yellow
from 7 to 8
Very High
Look at this within 24 hours
Incidents, bugs, or issues with high impact on the business.
Lorem
3
Code Blue
from 5 to 6
High
Look at this within a week
Features or requests with elevated and normal and normal impact on the business.
Incidents, bugs, or issues with elevated and normal impact on the business.
Lorem
4
Code Green
from 3 to 4
Medium
Look at this within the next sprint
Features or requests with low impact on the business.
Incidents, bugs, or issues with low impact on the business.
Lorem
5
Code Gray
from 1 to 2
Low
Never to be looked at unless they get upgraded to Code Green
Features or requests with very low impact on the business.
Incidents, bugs, or issues with very low impact on the business.
Aging factor & Archive after 6 months expiry
Lorem
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