Product Management · IT & Software

RICE prioritisation for IT & Software

Use this to prioritise features objectively. Written for a software company that ships a SaaS product.

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## Your task
Prioritise these feature ideas for a software company that ships a SaaS product using RICE (reach, impact, confidence, effort). Explain the estimate behind each score, rank the list, and point out where the ranking conflicts with uptime, security and data-protection requirements.

## About my situation
- Who this is for: engineering leads, developers and IT buyers
- How we measure success: deployment frequency and uptime

## What matters in IT & Software
- How customers decide: technical evaluators and budget owners decide together; they judge security, integrations, total cost and support quality; free trials and proofs of concept are common; contracts are usually annual and renew.
- Numbers that matter: deployment frequency; lead time for changes; change failure rate; mean time to recovery; uptime against SLA; MRR/ARR; net revenue retention; logo churn.
- Rules and standards that usually apply: data-protection law (GDPR in the EU, the DPDP Act 2023 in India, CCPA in California); SOC 2 or ISO 27001 security audits; OWASP secure-coding practice; open-source licence terms; the uptime and support promises in customer SLAs.
- Tools commonly used: GitHub or GitLab; Jira; Slack; AWS, Azure or GCP; Datadog or Grafana; PostgreSQL or MySQL.
- Rules differ by country. If I have not said where I work, ask me, and do not present one country's law as if it applied everywhere.

## What I will give you
Ideas: [PASTE IDEAS]

## How to work through it
1. Estimate reach, impact, confidence and effort.
2. Explain each estimate.
3. Rank the list.
4. Point out conflicts with constraints.

## What to deliver
- RICE table
- Ranked list
- Conflicts

## Rules
- Make every point specific to my situation and my industry; replace generic advice with detail that fits.
- Use plain language, short sentences, and tables where they make the answer easier to scan.
- Use only the facts I give you. Do not invent figures, laws, sources or quotes. Mark anything you had to assume with "Assumption:".
- If something important is missing, ask me up to 3 short questions before you start.

## Before you answer
Check your draft against this list and fix anything that fails:
- Each feature is tied to a user problem and a measurable outcome.
- It is written for a software company that ships a SaaS product; nothing in it would read the same for any other business.
- Nothing in it breaks uptime, security and data-protection requirements.
- Every item under "What to deliver" is included.
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How to use this prompt

  1. Copy the prompt. Press Copy prompt and the full text goes to your clipboard.
  2. Fill the brackets. Use the form above, or replace [PASTE IDEAS] with your own details.
  3. Paste and send. Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini and send. Ask follow-up questions to refine the answer.

Why this prompt works

The “RICE prioritisation” prompt tells the assistant exactly what to hand back: RICE table; ranked list; and conflicts. It makes the assistant work through 4 steps in order, starting with "estimate reach, impact, confidence and effort", instead of jumping straight to an answer. Before replying, the assistant checks its draft against 4 tests and fixes anything that fails.

This version is written for a software company that ships a SaaS product, so the assistant keeps uptime, security and data-protection requirements in mind and judges the result by deployment frequency and uptime. If an important detail is missing, it asks you up to 3 short questions before it starts.

How to get the best answer

  1. Fill every bracket with real detail: [PASTE IDEAS] should hold real names, numbers and dates, not placeholders.
  2. Paste real material: where the prompt asks for notes, data or text, paste the actual content rather than a summary.
  3. Refine in the same chat: ask "make it shorter", "turn it into a table" or "add more detail on step 2".
  4. Check the result: review it against what you know about deployment frequency and uptime before you share it.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Which AI assistant works best with the “RICE prioritisation” prompt?

The “RICE prioritisation” prompt works in any chat assistant and suits ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini best. Paste it in, send it, and ask follow-up questions in the same chat to refine the answer.

What do I fill in before sending the “RICE prioritisation” prompt?

Replace the highlighted bracket – [PASTE IDEAS] – with your own details. The more specific you are, the better the answer.

Is the “RICE prioritisation” prompt only for IT & Software?

No. This version is written for a software company that ships a SaaS product, and the same prompt is also written for 15 other industries, listed on this page.

Is the “RICE prioritisation” prompt free to use?

Yes. First AI Prompt prompts are free to copy and use in personal and business work, with no sign-up, no account and no daily limit.

Can I trust the answer the “RICE prioritisation” prompt gives?

Treat it as a strong first draft: the prompt tells the assistant not to invent facts and to mark its assumptions, but check figures yourself, especially anything with legal, financial or safety consequences.

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