Workshop format for backlog prioritization? 🧐

I've asked this before here without much luck, but I still face this question!

I have small business client with team of 4-6 folks who wants to sort through all the priorities and projects they've come up with. They are great at ideation, but often fail at execution because they are scattered and disagree on what should be worked on next.

General frameworks I'm familiar with, and I've been an agile product owner in the past, so I think of Agile approaches, for example: rating each project idea by Impact vs Effort (action-priority matrix). Sorting into Must Have / Should Have / Could Have / Won't Have, etc.

But I still haven't figured out a great structured format for a team to do this together except for unstructured group discussion and a white board. I give it a B— on effectiveness.

Miro templates aren't much help. I wind up doing ok, but I just feel like this should be a tight structure.

I've asked this another way here: https://www.skool.com/facilitatorclub/action-priority-matrix-how-to-alone-together?p=3bbc03e8

Let me know if you have your own format for this! Or if there are obvious tips I may be missing!

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