Chapter 13

Develop Project Prioritization and Selection Criteria

Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.

—Dallin H. Oaks

Once the performance scorecards have been developed for all areas in the organization, teams brainstorm ideas to identify projects and initiatives to be undertaken for achieving measures chosen in their scorecards. In the enthusiasm to achieve the objectives of their new scorecards, the number of project ideas quickly adds up. Suddenly it becomes overwhelming for teams to prioritize and select the ones they should implement. Most organizations regularly struggle with this problem as they are challenged with limited resource availability.

In Chapters 13 and 14 I will ...

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