Impact Effort Matrix
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- Collaborate seamlessly with the team to brainstorm around projects and prioritize tasks
- Quickly share documents with stakeholders and discuss requirements with inline comments
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Guide and Best Practices
An impact effort matrix is a decision-making tool that helps teams easily visualize where they should spend their time, effort and resources on. Teams can use it to prioritize the solutions/ ideas they should work on based on the impact (the benefit of implementation) and effort (how easy are they to implement).
How to do an impact-effort analysis
- Start by determining the goal and the scope of your impact effort analysis. At the same time clarify the timeframe and values on the axes.
- Get everyone in the team to brainstorm the different tasks they need to do to accomplish the project goal.
- Pick a Creately impact-effort matrix template and share it with everyone in the group for collaboration.
- Those ideas that you think will bring you more return for little effort should be placed under Quick Wins.
- Activities/ projects that may bring you a good return although it may take more of your time and effort should be placed under Major Projects.
- Those activities that may not have such an impact but won’t take up much of your time can be grouped as Fill in Jobs.
- And the work that may take significant effort for no benefit can be categorized as Thankless Tasks or Time Wasters.
- Go through the completed matrix and discuss changes with the team. And create an action plan for assigning responsibilities.
- Share the action plan along with the impact-effort matrix with stakeholders and monitor the progress with the help of the documents.