How The Selection Score Is Calculated
The benefit-cost ratio is benefit ÷ cost (BCR). This tool then blends urgency and risk into a selection score: score = BCR × urgency − risk. Net priority is the raw margin benefit − cost.
Note that the urgency-weighted score mixes a ratio (BCR) with the 0–100 urgency and risk scales, so it is an ordering heuristic rather than a normalized percentage. Use it to rank competing projects, then confirm the ranking with Project ROI or the Value/Effort matrix.
Why It Matters
Portfolio teams score every candidate project with the same criteria so the highest-value work is funded first. BCR and net priority are the two classic single-year project-selection metrics taught in PMO playbooks.