Planning and measurement
Triage
Deciding quickly what gets attention first when there's more to do than time or people allow, borrowed from emergency medicine. The Technicians MBA uses four tags: green (easy, low-risk, cheap), yellow (difficult but manageable), red (critical, costly to delay) and black (consciously dropped).
You'll hear it as
We're in triage: if it isn't red, it waits.
Why it matters to you.
You can't save everything. If nothing gets a black tag, you haven't been honest. A rough rule: if about a fifth of your list is black-tagged, the plan is deliverable.
Also called Black tag.
Related terms.
Videos.
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