Prioritisation team session

Before the session

Read Days 32, 34 and 40 (about five minutes each), or Module 4 on the cheat sheet.

The 30 minutes

1. 0–5 minOpen

   Quick round: one piece of work you'd drop tomorrow if you could.

2. 5–15 minDiscuss three days
   • Day 32: What does waiting cost?Which items on our list lose value every week they wait, and which could sit for a month without harm?
   • Day 34: Roadmaps without fake dates.Which dates on our current plan are promises about work we haven't discovered yet?
   • Day 40: Stopping is a skill.Is anything on our list quietly dying? What would it take to stop it openly?
3. 15–25 minExercise: Now, Next, Later

   Put every current piece of work on a sticky note and place it in Now, Next or Later. For each item in Now, say what waiting a month would cost. Anything nobody can defend moves right.

4. 25–30 minAction for the week

   Each person picks one item in Now that they own and writes one kill criterion for it: the result that would make us stop.

   Agree the team rule: “Commit to the near. Flex on the far.”