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Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
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Operations
Eat the Frog
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Purposedifferent
With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects.The method protects energy and attention for the task that creates the largest progress and is often postponed.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
45-120 min15-90 min daily1-2 h Setup, laufend
Participantsdifferent
2-811
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted DownsidesPriority Task, Completion Note, Daily FocusAction Lists, Project List, Review Routine
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TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions
PrioritizationProductivityFocusExecution
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
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Decision Making
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Decision Making
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