Five Quantitative Questions to Ask in Problem Prioritization: Part 1

In last week’s blog, I shared with you the first component of problem prioritization, consisting of three qualitative questions. The second and last component of problem prioritization consists of five quantitative questions. In this blog, I’m going to share with you three of them.

Each of the five quantitative questions is going to be rated from one to five. 5, meaning the best, and 1, meaning the least valuable.

1st Question: How easily can this problem be solved with your existing staff capacity?

Ask how easily your problem can be solved with your existing staff capacity, considering time. If this is a big, audacious problem and the person who knows how to solve it is about to go on leave or is busy with another priority, does he or she have the capacity to solve the problem?

You may have five people on your team who have the skills, but a couple of them don’t have the time. You want to be really conscious of time and capacity. Sometimes what we find here that is more positive is how easily this problem can be solved with existing staff. That’s a 5 out of 5.

There are a lot of process problems that we just need to sit down and have a conversation about for them to be…