Must Do, Should Do, Could Do for the Week of July 22, 2024
Last week I wrote about a prioritization method I read about in a book, but I don’t recall which book. Ugh. I decided to search tonight, and it turns out there’s a name for this method: The MoSCoW method. How about that?
The term MOSCOW itself is an acronym derived from the first letter of each of four prioritization categories: M - Must have, S - Should have, C - Could have, W - Won’t have.
I also found this article which states it in the same terms as the book I read:
- M – Must do: M tasks are things you absolutely have to do.
- S – Should do: S tasks are things you should do, but they’re a lower priority than M tasks.
- C – Could do: C tasks are nice-to-dos. You’d like to do them, but if you don’t, it’s probably not a big deal.
- W – Won’t do: W tasks are things that just aren’t worth doing.
I do like the addition of the “Won’t do” category, especially since it’s an explicit call out of those things.
I’m going to try again this week. It was helpful to have the lists last week even if my completion rate was only 40%.
Must Do
- Prep for a talk I’m giving on the 26th
- Knock the talk out of the park on Friday!
- Prepare for the new gig I’m starting on later in the week. There’s some studying to do on some parts of the ecosystem I’ll be working in that I’m not familiar with.
Should Do
- Start reading “Think Again” by Adam Grant or return it to the library
- Study (and take notes) for AZ104 which is scheduled for July 31.
- Schedule the next few months of meetings for the meetup I run. I know the topics I want, I just need to find speakers!
- Finish transcribing my notes from reading Crucial Conversations and return the book to the library
- Get through chapters 5-7 in Jean Tabaka’s Collaboration Explained
Could Do
- Start working on some data analysis for an upcoming blog post I want to write.
- Research new themes for my blog
- Commit some code to GitHub that only lives on my Windows machine.
Won’t Do
- Spend time playing computer games during the week
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