pm-prioritization-rigor-audit

Trace each score to its evidence: reach from usage data, impact from a defensible hypothesis, confidence from evidence quality. Flag scores with no named source, uniformly high confidence, or precision exceeding the inputs, such as RICE values reported to decimals.

Check that criteria come from written strategy, items are framed as problems with affected-user counts, and trade-offs are explicit. The audit returns Critical, Major, and Minor findings plus a top-3 fix list with the questions the team must answer.

Must-have inflation appears when more than roughly 60 percent of items sit in Must Have and the Won't-have list is empty or missing. The fix is forcing Musts to mean the product fails without them and writing explicit Won't-haves with reasons.

Skip full scoring for reversible, low-stakes decisions where a quick call is healthy prioritization. Rigor matters most when the decision is expensive to reverse; strategic bets may override scores if the override is explicit and reasoned.

No. Metric validity belongs to the pm-okr-metric-validity-audit skill, and broader decision-process quality belongs to pm-decision-quality-audit. This audit assumes the criteria and checks the ranking discipline applied to them.