Idea evaluation methods
Methods for voting, scoring and rating of ideas
Choose appropriate evaluation criteria
As a facilitator, you should establish clear evaluation criteria upfront that align with the goals and objectives of the evaluation process.
These criteria should be communicated to participants to ensure that their evaluations are consistent and based on relevant factors. For example, criteria could include business value and feasibility.
With IdeaClouds you can apply the following evaluation criteria in your online workshops.
Choose appropriate evaluation criteria
As a facilitator, you should establish clear evaluation criteria upfront that align with the goals and objectives of the evaluation process.
These criteria should be communicated to participants to ensure that their evaluations are consistent and based on relevant factors. For example, criteria could include business value and feasibility.
With IdeaClouds you can apply the following evaluation criteria in your online workshops.
Importance
Evaluate importance, e.g. to prioritize ideas or tasks: unimportant, slightly important, moderately important, important or very important.
Effort and benefit
Evaluate effort and benefit, e.g. for actions, new products or features: high, fairly high, medium, fairly low, low.
Business value and feasibility
Evaluate business value and feasibility, e.g. for new products or features: high, fairly high, medium, fairly low, low.
Scoring
Score from 0 to 10.
Voting (Yes or No)
Vote with Yes or No e.g. which proposals should be pursued and which not.
Agreement
Ask for agreement level, e.g. to evaluate the acceptance of proposals or options: strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree.
Pros and cons
Name advantages and drawbacks, e.g. for solution approaches.
Complexity (SCRUM poker)
Estimate complexity with SCRUM Poker, e.g. for user stories in development projects: 1 (very simple), 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40 or 100 (very complex)
Creativity and feasibility
Evaluate creativity and feasibility, e.g. for new product ideas: high, fairly high, medium, fairly low, low.
SWOT analysis
List strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and risks, e.g. for new business ideas.
Effort in person days
Estimate effort in person days, e.g. for implementing deliverables in projects: from less than 1 to 14 working days per person.
Accuracy
Evaluate accuracy, e.g. to assess ideas or tasks: not accurate, slightly accurate, moderately accurate, accurate or very accurate.