Prioritize and plan improvements

Prioritize your identified improvements based on the greatest anticipated impact with the lowest costs and acceptable risk.

Decide which improvements to focus on initially, and include them in your resource planning and development roadmap.

Applying this step to the Example scenario, you prioritize the target improvements as follows:

Priority	Improvement	Potential	Cost	Risk
1	Implement more effective compression mechanisms	High	Low	Low
2	Implement predictive scaling	Medium	Low	Low

The high potential, low cost, and risk of updating file compression make it a high-value target for your company and a priority over implementing predictive scaling. You determine that implementing predictive scaling with its medium potential impact, low cost, and low risk should be the priority improvement after file compression is complete.

You assign a team member to implement improved file compression and add predictive scaling to your backlog.