Improve your decision making with Decision Priorizater Matrix
When it comes to facilitate and mediate collaborative design meetings, the problem that frequently shows up is deciding what kind of decisions we have to get done first to go ahead.
To make it easier to decide what kind of decision the meeting’s participants need to spend their time on, I’ve created the Decision Priorizator Matrix.
The Decision Priorizator Matrix was based in the interview given by Jeff Bezos for Fast Company, at this interview, Bezos says that he sorts decisions into two types: reversible and irreversible.
Understanding which kind of decision we are talking about enables us to measure the impact of this and understanding the level of uncertainty accepted.
Chasing a better formula to prioritize decisions, I’ve included one more variable, the urgency. Urgency also can be classified into two types: postponable and unavoidable.
Classifying a decision into their rank of reversibility and urgency will come out four possible results:
A decision that is…
Reversible and postponable: it’s the lowest level of priority at the matrix. This decision should put off for another moment out of the meeting.
Reversible and unavoidable: in this case, the answer is necessary to go ahead, but it is possible to revert with small efforts on it.
In that case, as I like to say: “A good decision is a decision done.”
Irreversible and postponable: with an irreversible question on our hands, we have to think if we got enough information to take that decision. If there is even a small doubt about that, and that decision is postponable, we should go ahead and let it for another moment.
Irreversible and unavoidable: this is the highest priority at the matrix. Besides prevents us to go ahead this decision can’t be revert. So we need to slow down, to make the best work possible.
Considering these four kinds of decisions and possible paths to facilitate decision making, we can go straight ahead to the goal.
I hope you enjoyed it. Thank you!
