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DECISION-MAKING5 MIN READ

Walk a RICE roadmap tie-break

Use RICE inputs and confidence checks to resolve a close prioritization call.

Two roadmap ideas score 240 and 225 in RICE. The higher score has shakier confidence and a vendor dependency. RICE WALK How do you break the tie? Pick the 240 because the score is higher. You respect the model, but you may over-trust a score built on weak assumptions. Inspect confidence, effort risk, and strategic fit before choosing. Strong. Close scores need assumption quality, not decimal worship. Ask leadership to choose by preference. Fast, but it wastes the evidence already gathered and reintroduces politics. Numerical clarity versus assumption quality. RICE is useful because it exposes assumptions; close scores are where…

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