# prioritization-advisor

Picks a prioritization framework for your product stage and team, then explains how to run it. Useful when RICE, ICE and value/effort all look plausible.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 3100 installs · ★ 7673
- Author: deanpeters
- License: CC-BY-SA-4.0 · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills/tree/HEAD/skills/prioritization-advisor/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-16
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/prioritization-advisor

## What it does

The skill walks a PM through choosing how work gets ranked instead of scoring the work itself. It asks up to four questions with ready-made answers: product stage, team and stakeholder setup, and the decision the framework has to support. What comes back is one recommended framework plus guidance on implementing it in your context. A run takes about 15–25 minutes.

Frameworks sit in three groups: scoring ones like RICE, ICE, value/effort and weighted scoring; strategic ones like Kano, Opportunity Scoring, Buy-a-Feature and MoSCoW; contextual ones like Cost of Delay, Impact Mapping and Story Mapping. Each entry spells out what it demands of your data and your team. Nothing is calculated here: the point is matching method to situation, and the file says so.

Worth knowing before you start: the question flow is defined by `workshop-facilitation`, a separate skill in the same repository. It supplies the session modes, progress labels and numbered answer options, so install it alongside if you want the session to run as described. Context pasted right after the skill name already counts as answers and won't be asked again.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill prioritization-advisor -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/prioritization-advisor/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/prioritization-advisor/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill prioritization-advisor -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/prioritization-advisor/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill prioritization-advisor -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/prioritization-advisor/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills prioritization-advisor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/prioritization-advisor/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill prioritization-advisor -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --path skills/prioritization-advisor
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/prioritization-advisor/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills --skill prioritization-advisor -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills/tree/HEAD/skills/prioritization-advisor/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- pick a prioritization framework that fits your product stage
- settle RICE versus value/effort for roadmap planning
- stop the recurring argument about how work gets ranked
- switch frameworks without bouncing between them every quarter
- onboard a new PM to the team's ranking process

## Example prompts
- Help me pick a prioritization framework: early-stage B2B startup, crowded backlog, no usage data, one loud enterprise prospect.
- We keep fighting over how to rank work. Recommend a framework for our team and tell me how to roll it out.
- Mature product, we want to move off RICE toward something that suits incremental optimization. What fits?

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From the same set: [deanpeters/product-manager-skills](https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/by/deanpeters/product-manager-skills.md) — 73 cards

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