Before you start
Portfolio Prioritization Checker
Rank a portfolio by its weighted scores, fund it to the budget, and find out whether the answer would survive a small argument about the weights.
Open your scoring sheet: a row per project, a column of scores per criterion, and the cost if you have it. It is read inside your browser; nothing is uploaded.
Scoring sheet
Drop a spreadsheet here
One row per project or initiative, with a column of scores for each criterion, and the cost if you have it. A row named Weight gives the weights; otherwise they start equal and can be set below.
The weights are the decision
A weighted scoring model looks objective, and the arithmetic is. The weights are a judgment, usually settled in one meeting, and a ranking can hinge on them more than anyone realizes. If moving strategic fit from 30% to 26% swaps which projects get funded, the model has not decided between them; it has only looked as if it did.
What is checked
For each criterion, how far its weight can move, with the others scaled to fit, before a different set of projects is funded. Pairs of criteria that score projects almost identically, so one idea quietly carries double weight. Criteria that score everyone about the same, so their weight changes nothing. Projects in and out that sit within two points of each other. And, with costs and a budget, what fits, with mandatory work funded first.
What this does not do
It does not choose the portfolio, set the weights or score the projects; the model is yours, and so is the decision. It shows where the model is firm and where it is not, so the discussion can go to the places that need it.