prioritize-features skill (phuryn/pm-skills)

What it does. Prioritize a backlog of feature ideas based on impact, effort, risk, and strategic alignment with top 5 recommendations. Use when prioritizing a feature backlog, making scope decisions, or ranking product ideas. Part of phuryn/pm-skills (PM Skills Marketplace) (phuryn/pm-skills).

Install

• Claude Code: claude plugin marketplace add phuryn/pm-skills then claude plugin install pm-product-discovery@pm-skills (the plugin that holds this skill).
• Other agents: npx skills add phuryn/pm-skills --skill prioritize-features, or copy pm-product-discovery/skills/prioritize-features/ into ~/.claude/skills/prioritize-features/.
• Raw file: curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/phuryn/pm-skills/HEAD/pm-product-discovery/skills/prioritize-features/SKILL.md

SKILL.md (verbatim)

name: prioritize-features
description: "Prioritize a backlog of feature ideas based on impact, effort, risk, and strategic alignment with top 5 recommendations. Use when prioritizing a feature backlog, making scope decisions, or ranking product ideas."

Prioritize Feature Backlog

Evaluate and rank a backlog of feature ideas to identify the top 5 to pursue.

Context

You are helping prioritize features for $ARGUMENTS.

If the user provides files (spreadsheets, backlogs, opportunity assessments), read and analyze them directly.

Domain Context

For framework selection guidance, see the prioritization-frameworks skill. Key recommendations:

Opportunity Score (Dan Olsen, The Lean Product Playbook) is recommended for evaluating customer problems: Opportunity Score = Importance × (1 − Satisfaction), normalized to 0–1. High Importance + low Satisfaction = best opportunities. Prioritize problems (opportunities), not solutions.

ICE is recommended for quick scoring of initiatives: Impact (Opportunity Score × # Customers) × Confidence × Ease. RICE adds Reach as a separate factor for larger teams.

Instructions

The user will describe their product objective, desired outcomes, and provide feature ideas. Work through these steps:

1. Understand priorities: Confirm the product objective and success metrics.

2. Evaluate each feature against:

   • Impact: How much does it move the needle on desired outcomes? Consider Opportunity Score if customer data is available.
   • Effort: How much development, design, and coordination is required?
   • Risk: How much uncertainty exists? What assumptions need testing?
   • Strategic alignment: How well does it fit the product vision and current goals?

3. Recommend the top 5 features with:

   • Clear ranking (1-5)
   • Brief rationale for each selection
   • Key trade-offs considered
   • What was deprioritized and why

4. Present as a prioritization table if helpful.

Think step by step. Save as markdown if the output is substantial.

Further Reading

• Kano Model: How to Delight Your Customers Without Becoming a Feature Factory
• The Product Management Frameworks Compendium + Templates
• Continuous Product Discovery Masterclass (CPDM) (video course)

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