RICE Score Extension for Azure DevOps

Automatically calculate and store RICE scores for your work items.

What is RICE?

RICE is a prioritization framework that helps product managers assess the priority of features, projects, or initiatives. RICE stands for:

• Reach: How many users/customers will this impact?
• Impact: How much will it impact those users? (Scale: 3 = massive, 2 = high, 1 = medium, 0.5 = low, 0.25 = minimal)
• Confidence: How confident are you in your estimates? (100% = high, 80% = medium, 50% = low)
• Effort: How many person-months will this take?

The RICE score is calculated as:

RICE Score = (Reach × Impact × Confidence) / Effort

Features

Automatic Calculation

The extension automatically calculates the RICE score whenever you update the Reach, Impact, Confidence, or Effort fields on a work item.

Settings Hub

Configure which custom fields map to each RICE component from the Collection Settings.

Setup

1. Create custom decimal fields in your process for:

   • Reach
   • Impact
   • Confidence
   • Effort
   • RICE Score

2. Add these fields to the work item types you want to use RICE scoring on.

3. Go to Collection Settings > RICE to configure the field mappings.

4. Start using RICE scoring on your work items!

Requirements

• Azure DevOps Services or Azure DevOps Server 2019+
• Custom decimal fields must be created for the RICE components