Using MoSCoW to prioritize ideas
I have been on a lot of projects in my time and I used to prioritise ideas or requirements as “high”, “medium” or “low” importance.
If people classified their requirement as low,however, we would record the requirement in a long list, thank them for their idea and then never talk about it again. If they classified it as medium then we promised get to it in “phase 2”, which meant after we ran out of money.
People learned over time to classify all of their requirements as high priority so we started adding new classifications like critical or super ultra high, which didn’t help at all.
