When everything feels important, force subtraction.
Your team's roadmap has 12 priorities. The backlog keeps growing. Everything feels urgent. Everyone is stretched thin.
Traditional prioritization doesn't work when everything is "high priority." Adding votes or scores just creates the illusion of choice.
The host adds 3-10 items: features, initiatives, priorities, anything that's competing for attention.
No voting. No scoring. Just: drag 3 items to "Cut for Now." You can't move forward until something is cut.
Results show what most people are willing to let go of. Talk about what you're willing to drop — and why.
Your roadmap has too many priorities
Everything feels urgent and important
Team is stretched thin across too many initiatives
Need to create focus, fast
This is not prioritization. It's not voting. It's not a framework.
It's a reverse-prioritization intervention. A way to make scope creep visible and force real choices about what to let go of.
No signup. No email. Just a link.
A thinking tool from Cognu