Decision Making

ICE Scoring

Make short-term decisions by thinking about the impact, confidence, and easiness of your decisions. Plan and prioritize on the timescale of weeks or months.
Useful when
  • You want to prioritize your life on the timescale of weeks or months
  • You want to make decisions that are impactful, confident, and easy to execute
About

The ICE Scoring model is known for its speed and simplicity in helping individuals and teams to prioritize which decisions, tasks, and projects to pursue.

The simple 5-step process for prioritization:

1. Define your options

2. Score them on positive impact if succeeding

3. Score them on the confidence of succeeding

4. Score them on the easiness of pursuing

5. Rank and prioritize the one with the highest expected value

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Useful when
  • You want to prioritize your life on the timescale of weeks or months
  • You want to make decisions that are impactful, confident, and easy to execute