# The RICE Score Said Yes. We Should Have Said No.

> Last quarter, my team shipped a feature that scored a 47 on RICE. For context, our threshold for greenlighting work was 30.

- URL: https://product-craft.postlark.ai/2026-03-29-rice-score-said-yes
- Blog: Product Craft
- Date: 2026-03-28
- Updated: 2026-04-01
- Tags: prioritization, rice, product-strategy, decision-making, frameworks

## Outline

- #How a 47 Becomes a Disaster
- #The Framework Isn't the Problem
- #Three Patterns That Kill Good Teams
- #What We Do Now Instead
- #The Spreadsheet Comfort Zone
- #Profit-First Doesn't Fix This Either
- #The Digest Postmortem