Verify rank-proportional time allocation weekly…
Each week, verify that your calendar gives each priority a time block proportional to its rank—if your top priority receives less time than your third priority, you have structural misalignment requiring correction.
When This Fires
- During weekly planning after allocating time blocks to priorities
- When priority #1 chronically doesn't advance — check whether it's getting rank-proportional time
- As a quick diagnostic during Weekly cross-check's weekly stack-budget cross-reference
- Complements Group weekly tasks under parent objectives, allocate best… (grouped weekly scheduling) with the proportionality verification
Common Failure Mode
Urgency-inverted allocation: email and meetings (low-ranked but time-consuming) get 25+ hours while the product strategy (top-ranked but non-urgent) gets 3 hours. The calendar perfectly implements the wrong priority ranking. The proportionality check catches this before execution.
The Protocol
(1) After planning the week, list each priority and the total calendar hours allocated to it. (2) Check rank proportionality: does priority #1 have more allocated hours than #2? Does #2 have more than #3? (3) If the rank order matches → structurally aligned. Proceed. (4) If any lower-ranked priority has more time than a higher-ranked one → structural misalignment. Reallocate: move time from the over-served lower priority to the under-served higher priority until the ordering matches. (5) Perfect proportionality isn't required — but the rank ordering of time must match the rank ordering of priorities.