Week Triage by Consequence
Sorts an overloaded list by what actually happens if each item slips, rather than by urgency theatre — and tells you what to drop outright.
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Running it, start to finish
- Dump everything, including the things you feel guilty about.
- State your real hours and what you are actually measured on.
- Act on the drop list — that is where the week is won.
What you get back
The output this produces, every time.
- Ranks by what happens if something slips rather than by how urgently it is being asked for.
- Does the arithmetic against your real available hours and refuses to hand back an over-committed week.
- Produces an explicit drop list with the consequence you are accepting for each.
Getting better results
Where this usually goes wrong, and how to avoid it.
- Be honest about available hours. Subtract meetings, admin and the recovery time after hard work. Most people plan against roughly twice the hours they actually have.
- Do not defend the list. when it says drop something. The items whose delay consequence is genuinely 'nothing' are usually the ones that have survived longest on the list.
- Re-run mid-week. if a fire appears. A triage built on Monday is invalid by Wednesday if the inputs changed, and re-running takes two minutes.
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