Lesson 6: Add effort and rank

After the group completes all four business value columns, technologists compare implementation effort. Value and effort play different roles in the final ranking. Before estimating, confirm the outcome and solution boundary. Everyone must be sizing the same scope, so the effort comparison reflects the same work. Add strategic value, risk reduction, time criticality, and cost savings or avoidance. Their total becomes the request’s business points. Next, divide business points by implementation effort to calculate the priority score. Compare that result across requests, rather than ranking by business points alone. A request with ten points and effort of one scores ten. A request with eighteen points and effort of five scores three point six. The smaller request ranks higher. A high score is a priority signal, not an automatic commitment. Check legal and access requirements, readiness, discovery needs, and sequencing before committing to delivery. Readiness and available capacity help determine the next step: build, discovery, replay, or another delivery path. A smaller winner may leave room for another request. Use the ranking to guide an enterprise decision, then check what can move forward in the six-week focus. Now compare the requests and choose what the highest score means.

Visual description: The four business lenses are checked before a connector leads to the technologists and implementation effort. Technologists on either side connect to one shared request sheet inside a clear scope boundary. Four familiar lens symbols and plus signs feed into a single business-points total. A large fraction shows Business points divided by Implementation effort equals Priority score. Two examples from the existing practice table show D: 18 divided by 5 equals 3.6 and A: 10 divided by 1 equals 10. The rows exchange positions so A ranks above D. A priority marker leads to five readiness considerations: legal, access, readiness, discovery, and sequencing. One request branches to Build, Discovery, Replay, and Another path, with available capacity shown as a separate decision factor. A ranked request list connects to a six-week focus window. The closing teaching prompt asks learners to compare scores and identify the next step.