How to prioritize a list of projects and ideas for the year

[Megan_Lewis3]

We are a medium-sized nonprofit organization with about 50 staff. Our ELT (executive leadership team) has identified a list of 30-40 special projects, ideas, and new initiatives that we’d like to take on this year. Some of them would be complex projects that would require their own Asana project, and others are more simple and would likely be an Asana task with subtasks. We do not have the resources to complete them all, so I’d like to lead the ELT in a prioritization exercise. Do you have any suggestions or best practices to help me shape this in Asana? What’s the best way to view this entire list at once? Put them all in a project? If so, do you have suggestions for helpful sections or custom fields? Thank you in advance for your insights!

[lpb]

@Megan_Lewis3,

That’s a great question. I’ve been meaning to create a Community Tips > Forum Leader tips about this, so here you go!

Prioritizing work for planning, for backlogs, etc., or evaluating alternatives to make decisions

This tip offers a framework for easily prioritizing projects, ideas, work, goals, etc., and using your choice of prioritization approach, a number of which are contrasted below. You can quickly create something like this (assuming you’re on any Asana paid plan): [image] I’d recommend starting this way: Make a new project You do not need any Sections (just use the List view which used “Untitled section” behind the scenes) and might consider a Section custom field instead if you want to cate…

Please let me know if it helps.

And I wrote it quickly, so please let me know if you find it hard to follow, or spot any areas for correction.

Thanks,

Larry