prioritization

ICE
Score.

Quickly rank ideas by Impact, Confidence, and Ease on a 1-10 scale.

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Step 1

List all ideas or experiments to evaluate

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Step 2

Score each idea on Impact (1-10): how much will it affect your key metric?

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Step 3

Score each idea on Confidence (1-10): how certain are you it will work?

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Step 4

Score each idea on Ease (1-10): how easy is it to implement?

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The Trade-off.

ICE is a lightweight prioritization framework that scores ideas across three dimensions, each rated 1-10: Impact (how much will this move the target m...

Advantages
  • /Extremely quick to apply
  • /Low overhead, great for brainstorming sessions
  • /Simple 1-10 scale is intuitive
  • /Good for high-volume idea screening
Limitations
  • /Very subjective scoring
  • /Lacks the rigor of RICE (no reach or effort estimate)
  • /Easy to bias toward easy-to-implement ideas
  • /Scores aren't comparable across teams or time
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Real-world Applications

A growth hacker with 50 experiment ideas needs to pick the top 5

A marketing team deciding which campaigns to test first

A startup brainstorming session where speed matters more than precision

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