I'm no XPert but here's what I think:
If I were a
TriageNurse, I would do it this way:
Decide on which pile/category each patient (i.e. card) falls into:
- Cases that don't have to be taken care of right away.
- Cases that need to be taken care of right now.
- Cases that are too far gone and can't be taken care of -- these are the cases that can't be done even with the maximum time allotted.
Then focus on pile number 2, and throw away/modify pile number 3. Plan to do pile 1 later...
If there's too many cards on pile number 2, rethink which ones you can put on pile 1 instead. If there's still too many, even after culling the ones to put on pile 1, decide which cards on pile 2 to put on pile 3...
Problem solved.
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ButchLandingin
Or put them in four piles using the technique described in [
FourQuadrants, from]
SevenHabitsOfHighlyEffectivePeople:
[details now redundant]
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JonathanSaunders
I ask my boss to do card triage for me: I make a card for each thing I've been asked to do, and add cards for things that I want to do but haven't been asked to do. Then I ask my boss to sort the cards.
I'm always surprised how wrong I was when I guessed what was important to my boss.
This is visceral and direct. My boss never complains about the schedule dates I never meet (I have yet to meet a schedule date on this job). After all, my boss physically put the meet-the-schedule card lower in the stack before handing it back to me. --
WayneConrad