Template · Decision-making & prioritisation
MoSCoW Prioritisation template
For agreeing before a deadline what must be delivered, what should, what could, and what will not this time. Leave it alone when you need a rank order; this sorts into four bins and says nothing about the sequence inside them. Instead RICE, which ranks; MoSCoW only sorts into bins.
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Or work it through here
Sort each requirement into the four boxes, then check the balance: if Must have work is much above 60 per cent of the effort, the plan has no contingency and the exercise is not finished. Your entries persist for this browser session and can be copied out as Markdown or printed.
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Originator: Dai Clegg (Oracle UK). The framework itself is not ours to license, and the written entry behind this page, its worked example, critiques and sources, stays all rights reserved. The full licence position is set out in plain English.
Before you fill it in
A blank template is the easy part. The entry behind it covers how to run MoSCoW Prioritisation properly, a worked example, the pitfalls real teams hit, and the situations where it is the wrong tool and something else would serve better.