Eisenhower week prioritization
2×2 Eisenhower matrix plotting a week's to-dos by urgency and importance, with size encoding estimated hours and a highlighted must-do.
For the engineering manager
Scenario
An engineering manager uses this chart at Monday planning to triage her week. The highlighted "Ship hotfix" is the unambiguous top item (urgent + important). "Write Q3 OKRs" sits in the important-but-not-urgent quadrant — the trap quadrant Eisenhower called out: it silently slips until it becomes urgent, at which point it's badly done.
Annotation key
matrix eisenhower— template with preset axes (urgency × importance) and quadrant labels"Label" at (x, y)— x is urgency (0=low, 1=high), y is importancesize:— estimated effort (scales the bubble)highlight: true— red ring around the must-do
How to read
Top-right is urgent + important — do first. Top-left (important, not urgent) is where careful planning lives; the Q3 OKRs and refactor belong here. Bottom-right (urgent, not important) is the delegation zone. Bottom-left (neither) is the "delete" zone — anything here is a candidate for saying no. Bubble size shows time cost; use it to sanity-check that your top-right doesn't exceed the week's available hours.