Decision Making with Criteria and Weight
If you need to make an important decision, the following can help:
- Identify the criteria
- Identify the weighting of each criteria
- Rate your options against the criteria and multiply by the weightings
For example, when I was giving input on hiring our PUM, I identified the following criteria:
- Microsoft Experience
- patterns & practices Experience
- Attract the right talent
- Execution
- Customer-connection
- Engineering Competence
- Business Competence
- Political Competence
I then assigned a weighting. For example:
- Microsoft Experience - (2)
- patterns & practices Experience - (3)
- Attract the right talent - (3)
- Execution - (3)
- Customer-connection - (3)
- Engineering Competence - (2)
- Business Competence - (2)
- Political Competence - (2)
I rated the candidate against each criteria and then multiplied by the weighting. This gave me a quick frame to compare different candidates as well as have more meaningful dialogues with others. The actual numbers were less important than testing and clarifying criteria.