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Prioritization

In Design Discourse on 23 July 2003. Tagged Unfiled.

At one of the clients I work at, they prioritize their tasks by “Must”, “Should”, “Could” and “Want”. Using this system, I’ve prioritized my items (italicized items are new items):

SHOULD - Main blog area redesign (photoshop and paper)

SHOULD - Redesign implemented in html and css

MUST - Photos section

WANT - Highlighted photos section

WANT - HCI commentary section

SHOULD - Movie Reviews Section

COULD - Mailing list

COULD - Art Section

So I guess I’m tackling the photos section first!

Digg this!

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mfk 5 years ago 1 point
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I'm with Wyatt. You guys are geeks -- well-organized geeks, but geeks nonetheless.

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Wyatt 5 years ago 1 point
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Okay claw&KC;,

I was reading Claw's comment, and laughed. Then I read KC's comment, and laughed even harder, funny funny funny.

Then H. heard me laughing and said "What's so funny" and I got about 3 seconds into the explanation and realized that we're all really badly geeked out because there was no way I was going to be able to explain it to H. and get her to laugh along (though she might laugh at).

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http://www.planecerulean.com/candle

KC 5 years ago 1 point
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Good point but then you can go one step further and say I lack user cases which drive the requirements which THEN drive the task list, the estimates and the prioritizations. Luckily, I'm the business owner, the developer, the project manager and the HCI guy so I communicated them, but only to myself. I just happen to document the project plan on the blog ;)

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Claw 5 years ago 1 point
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Ok - so it's totally the product manager in me but before you put priority levels on things shouldn't you have a goal that you're mapping against?

In the projects that I work on, that's what drives the prioritization.

So really - what are you trying to accomplish with you blog? :)

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Kevin Cheng is a global nomad who's settled in San Francisco after calling Vancouver, Hong Kong, Austin and London his homes. Founder of Off Panel Productions and OK/Cancel. Director of Product Strategy at Raptr, a social network for gamers, and former designer of Pipes and Bravonation at Yahoo!. Presenter on numerous design subjects. Reachable at kc -at- this domain.

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