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-# Lesson 6: Workshop 4 - Prioritization
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-**Rank What Matters Most**
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-## Overview
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-Workshop 4 is where you make strategic choices about what matters most. You'll rank your target groups and their psychological drivers to create clear priorities that guide all design decisions.
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-**Duration:** 15-20 minutes  
-**Format:** Conversational with Saga  
-**Output:** Ranked target groups + ranked drivers for each group
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----
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-## What You'll Do
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-### 1. Prioritize Target Groups
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-**Rank your personas by strategic value:**
-- Which groups have highest business impact?
-- Which are most feasible to serve?
-- Rank 1-N based on strategic importance
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-**This ranking determines** which groups get design focus first.
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-### 2. Prioritize Driving Forces
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-**For each group, rank their psychological drivers:**
-- Within each persona, which drivers are strongest?
-- Which have most emotional intensity?
-- Which would drive the most urgent action?
-- Rank by power to drive behavior
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-**This ranking determines** which drivers become your feature scoring criteria.
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----
-
-## Key Questions Saga Asks
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-### For Target Groups
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-- "Which target group will have the biggest impact on your top business goal?"
-- "Which group is most feasible to reach and serve effectively?"
-- "How would you rank all groups from highest to lowest strategic value?"
-- "Why does this group rank higher than the others?"
-- "What makes this group more strategic?"
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-### For Driving Forces
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-- "For [top persona], which driving forces are most powerful?"
-- "Which drivers have the most emotional intensity?"
-- "Which pain points cause the most urgent need to act?"
-- "Which positive drivers are strongest motivators?"
-- "How would you rank these drivers by their power to drive behavior?"
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----
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-## Generic Example
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-### Target Group Rankings
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-**1. Remote Team Leads** (Priority #1)
-- **Why #1:** High impact (each brings 5-10 users), reachable through professional channels, urgent pain (team burnout risk), budget authority
-- **Business impact:** Directly drives user acquisition and retention goals
-- **Feasibility:** Can reach through LinkedIn, management communities
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-**2. Solo Remote Workers** (Priority #2)
-- **Why #2:** Large market size, moderate impact per user, chronic pain (less urgent than team leads)
-- **Business impact:** Volume play, good retention potential
-- **Feasibility:** Reachable through remote work communities
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-**3. Remote Executives** (Priority #3)
-- **Why #3:** High value per user, but harder to reach, longer sales cycles
-- **Business impact:** Strategic accounts, high revenue potential
-- **Feasibility:** Difficult to reach, requires different approach
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----
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-### Driving Force Rankings: Remote Team Lead
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-**Top 5 Prioritized Drivers:**
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-**1. Fear of team burnout without noticing** (NEGATIVE)
-- **Why #1:** Most urgent, highest emotional intensity, constant worry
-- **Emotional core:** Guilt and responsibility for people's wellbeing
-- **Urgency:** Very high (active problem)
-- **Impact:** Directly threatens their success
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-**2. Want to demonstrate effective leadership** (POSITIVE)
-- **Why #2:** Career driver, strong motivation, measurable outcome
-- **Emotional core:** Professional advancement and recognition
-- **Urgency:** High (ongoing career goal)
-- **Impact:** Affects long-term success
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-**3. Fear of losing top performers** (NEGATIVE)
-- **Why #3:** Business impact, reflects on leadership, costly outcome
-- **Emotional core:** Failure and loss
-- **Urgency:** High (retention risk)
-- **Impact:** Damages team and reputation
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-**4. Want to build strong team culture** (POSITIVE)
-- **Why #4:** Aspirational, important but less urgent
-- **Emotional core:** Pride in team cohesion
-- **Urgency:** Medium (long-term goal)
-- **Impact:** Enables other goals
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-**5. Fear of missed deadlines** (NEGATIVE)
-- **Why #5:** Important but less emotionally intense than top fears
-- **Emotional core:** Professional embarrassment
-- **Urgency:** Medium (project-dependent)
-- **Impact:** Situational
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----
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-## Prioritization Criteria
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-### For Target Groups
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-**Business Impact:**
-- Which group's behavior most directly drives objectives?
-- Which group has power to make goals happen?
-- What's the multiplier effect? (e.g., team leads bring teams)
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-**Feasibility:**
-- Can we actually reach this group?
-- Do we have channels to communicate?
-- Can we serve them with our resources?
-- Is market size sufficient?
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-**Urgency of Pain:**
-- How urgent is their problem?
-- Are they actively seeking solutions?
-- What's the cost of not solving?
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-**Strategic Fit:**
-- Does this align with company strengths?
-- Is this a sustainable advantage?
-- Does this open future opportunities?
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-### For Driving Forces
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-**Emotional Intensity:**
-- How strongly do they feel this?
-- Does this keep them up at night?
-- Is this a constant worry or occasional concern?
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-**Urgency:**
-- How immediate is the need?
-- What triggers action on this?
-- Is this active pain or chronic discomfort?
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-**Impact on Behavior:**
-- Would solving this drive adoption?
-- Would this prevent churn?
-- Does this create word-of-mouth?
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-**Measurability:**
-- Can we tell if we've addressed this?
-- Can users articulate this need?
-- Is there observable behavior change?
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----
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-## Why Prioritization Matters
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-### Without Prioritization
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-**Problems:**
-- Try to serve everyone equally (serve no one well)
-- Build features that address minor drivers
-- Waste resources on low-impact groups
-- No clear focus for design
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-**Result:** Mediocre product that doesn't deeply solve anyone's problems.
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-### With Prioritization
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-**Benefits:**
-- Focus design on highest-impact groups
-- Address most powerful psychological drivers
-- Allocate resources strategically
-- Create deep value for top segments
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-**Result:** Product that deeply solves urgent problems for strategic users.
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----
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-## The Prioritization Cascade
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-Once you have rankings, design decisions become clear:
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-```
-Top Business Goal
-    ↓
-Top Target Group (who can best achieve this?)
-    ↓
-Top Psychological Driver (what drives them most?)
-    ↓
-Features that address this driver
-```
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-**Example:**
-- **Goal:** Increase user retention to 70%
-- **Top Group:** Remote Team Leads (high retention potential)
-- **Top Driver:** Fear of team burnout without noticing
-- **Top Feature:** Daily team pulse check with burnout indicators
-- **Why:** Addresses their #1 fear, drives retention
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----
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-## What You Get from Workshop 4
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-✅ **Clear strategic priorities** - Know what matters most  
-✅ **Ranked target groups** - Focus design efforts  
-✅ **Ranked drivers** - Know which psychology to address  
-✅ **Decision framework** - Guide all feature discussions  
-✅ **Data for scoring** - Foundation for Workshop 5
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----
-
-## Common Mistakes to Avoid
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-### Mistake 1: Everything Is Priority #1
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-**Problem:** "All groups are equally important"  
-**Why it fails:** Dilutes focus, serves no one well  
-**Fix:** Make hard choices, rank ruthlessly
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-### Mistake 2: Prioritizing by Ease
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-**Problem:** "Let's focus on the easiest group first"  
-**Why it fails:** May not drive business goals  
-**Fix:** Balance impact with feasibility
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-### Mistake 3: Ignoring Emotional Intensity
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-**Problem:** Ranking drivers by logic, not emotion  
-**Why it fails:** Miss what actually drives behavior  
-**Fix:** Consider emotional intensity and urgency
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-### Mistake 4: Too Many Top Priorities
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-**Problem:** "Top 10 drivers are all critical"  
-**Why it fails:** Can't focus, spreads resources thin  
-**Fix:** Limit to top 5-7 drivers for scoring
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-### Mistake 5: Forgetting Business Goals
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-**Problem:** Prioritizing based on interesting psychology  
-**Why it fails:** Doesn't connect to business success  
-**Fix:** Always trace back to business objectives
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----
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-## How This Feeds Into Workshop 5
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-**Workshop 4 creates the scoring criteria:**
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-```
-Business Goals
-    ↓
-Target Groups (ranked)
-    ↓
-Driving Forces (ranked for each group)
-    ↓
-Top 5-7 Drivers (scoring criteria)
-    ↓
-Workshop 5: Score features against these drivers
-```
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-The top-ranked drivers become the columns in your feature scoring matrix.
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----
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-## Tips for Success
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-**DO:**
-- ✅ Make hard choices (not everything is #1)
-- ✅ Consider both impact and feasibility
-- ✅ Focus on emotional intensity
-- ✅ Limit to top 5-7 drivers for scoring
-- ✅ Trace priorities back to business goals
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-**DON'T:**
-- ❌ Avoid making choices
-- ❌ Prioritize by ease alone
-- ❌ Ignore emotional intensity
-- ❌ Create too many "top" priorities
-- ❌ Forget the business objectives
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-## What's Next
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-Workshop 5 uses these priorities to systematically score features. Each feature gets rated against your top-ranked drivers, creating a data-driven roadmap.
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-## Key Takeaways
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-✅ **Ruthless prioritization** - Not everything can be #1  
-✅ **Two levels of ranking** - Groups first, then drivers  
-✅ **Strategic criteria** - Impact + feasibility + urgency  
-✅ **Top 5-7 drivers** - Become feature scoring criteria  
-✅ **Clear focus** - Guides all design decisions
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-*Part of Module 05: Trigger Mapping*