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Lesson 6: Define criteria for prioritizing elements

You prioritize elements in a structured way, according to criteria. When you prioritize elements, you can identify information to support product management and requirements management decisions. For instance, which features must be included in the next release? What risks are most severe? Which competitors constitute the largest threat? While some criteria are represented by facts, such as price and type, others represent relative aspects, such as design appeal.
You must be a workspace administrator to define criteria.
In this lesson, you create two criteria: Design appeal and Price. You can use these criteria to compare the cars.
  1. Click Modules > Criteria.
  2. To add the design criterion, click Add Criterion and specify the following details.
    1. In the Title field, type Design appeal.
    2. In the Description field, type This criterion represents the design appeal of the car.
    3. Ensure that Objective is set to Maximize because this criterion is positive.
    4. In the Question field, type Which car looks better?
    5. Click OK. The Design appeal criterion is listed on the Criteria page.
  3. To add the price criterion, click Add Criterion and specify the following details.
    1. In the Title field, type Price.
    2. In the Description field, type This criterion is based on the price attribute of the cars.
    3. In the Objective field, select Minimize. Because the price of each car is already specified in the price attribute, you can use those values by linking this criterion to the price attribute.
    4. Click OK. The Price criterion is listed on the Criteria page.
    5. To link the price attribute and the criteria, in the Estimate row, click the Edit Estimate icon (Edit estimate).
    6. From the list of modules, click Cars. The Price attribute, which is the only integer attribute in the Cars module, is listed on the page. This page typically lists all the integer attributes of the selected module.
    7. Click Price. On the Price criterion page, the value Price in the cars module is in the Estimate field. This value indicates that the link between the attribute and the criterion is set.
You can now compare the cars based on the Design appeal and Price criteria.

Lesson checkpoint

In this lesson, you learned how to define criteria and to associate an attribute of a module with a criterion.
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