80-20-feature-prioritization

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps you decide which product features to build, keep, or defer so the roadmap focuses on the small set of capabilities that create most user impact.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Usage + value prioritization: Weigh feature importance using usage signal, value signal, effort signal, and strategic signal (not usage alone), so “rare but essential” features aren’t wrongly cut.
• Decision matrix for roadmap cuts: Apply a 2×2 (low/high value vs. low/high effort) to sort backlog items into Cleanup later, Ship now, Don’t build, and Major investment.
• Roadmap shaping heuristics: Reframe quarterly plans by estimating user impact and engineering effort, then cutting the trailing portion to reduce fragmentation and maintenance drag.
• Hurt-case safeguards: Adjust the 80/20 cut for power-user retention, compliance/accessibility, foundational capabilities, and trust signals that may be infrequently used but high consequence.

Quick Start

Ask an AI assistant to run an 80/20 feature prioritization by reviewing your backlog items and ranking them by usage, value, effort, and strategic importance, then propose what to ship this quarter versus defer or deprecate.