RICE Prioritization Alternatives for Projects and Features: 8 Scoring Frameworks to Replace RICE
I’ve reviewed more than 100 prioritization frameworks, and I wanted to share what I’ve learned about the landscape outside of RICE. RICE is probably the most commonly referenced scoring method for stack ranking projects, ideas, or product features.
8 min readFeb 20, 2021
Where did this come from?
RICE scoring is a commonly referenced prioritization framework in product management and elsewhere. It shows up in most articles about prioritization techniques. In fact, after noticing so many of these articles, I decided to go on a little prioritization journey, where I lined up all prioritization frameworks mentioned on the internet. After that exercise, I realized there are many methods out there that are rarely discussed. Many of them may serve similar purposes to the popular ones like RICE. These alternatives are probably even more complete while also maintaining simplicity.
First off, let’s briefly review RICE.
