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Agreement-Certainty Matrix
Plot your backlog items on two axes — how much agreement is there, and how certain are you about what to do? The quadrant tells you what kind of action fits. Everything saves in your browser.
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Place each item on the matrix by clicking a zone. The quadrant tells you what kind of action fits.
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Agreement ↓ — High agreement on the top row, low on the bottom.
Certainty splits the top row — high on the left, low on the right. Both bottom-row zones are low-certainty; Chaotic is the extreme corner.
Agreement
Simple
Agreement: High · Certainty: High
No items
Complicated
Agreement: High · Certainty: Low
No items
Complex
Agreement: Low · Certainty: Low
No items
Chaotic
Agreement: Low · Certainty: Low (urgent)
No items