Product Development
RICE Score Calculator
Score features by reach, impact, confidence and effort and rank them.
- Time: 20 to 40 min
- With: Product team
- You get: A ranked feature list with the reasoning visible
How to use this worksheet
- List the candidate features, one per row.
- Reach: how many users per period will it affect? Use the same period for all rows.
- Impact: 3 massive, 2 high, 1 medium, 0.5 low, 0.25 minimal. Confidence: 100, 80 or 50 percent. Effort: person-months.
- Read the ranking, then look at the top three and the cheapest items. Low confidence at the top means: research before building.
Features
One row per feature.
Prompts
Ask yourself
- Is reach measured, or a guess?
- Which item has high impact but low confidence? Test it cheaply first.
Ranking
Before you finish
- All features use the same reach period.
- Impact and confidence are agreed as a team.
- Top items were sanity-checked against strategy.
About RICE
RICE was popularised by Intercom: score = reach x impact x confidence / effort. The confidence factor penalises ideas based on gut feeling.
A score is a conversation starter. Strategic bets, dependencies and risks do not fit in a formula, so use the ranking alongside your roadmap, not instead of it.
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