What is the resulting priority between Impact x Effort and Urgente x Importance Matrixes?
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I'm trying to organize my tasks here in a spreadsheet because of the mobility. I'm trying to prioritize these tasks using 2 matrixes: the impact and effort matrix:
This would result in a priority1:
High impact x low effort: 1 High impact x high effort: 2 Low impact x low effort: 3 Low impact x high effort: 4
and the importance and urgency matrix:
This would result in a priority2 :
urgent x important : 1 urgent x not important: 2 not Urgent x Important: 3 not Urgent x not important: 4
Since I'm using a spreadsheet, and the two matrices together will generate another priority list, I would like to know if there is an established priority, between the result of the first matrix
priority1
and the result of the second matrixpriority2
?Thank you all guys
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These two matrices serve different purposes.
You may apply the urgent x important (Eisenhower) matrix as a "filter". Worth recap some concepts:
- Urgent is something that cannot wait
- Important is something aligned to one's goals
With that in mind...
- You'll always focus on urgent + important (do now). Hopefully, there isn't many items here (if everything is urgent, nothing is urgent).
- Once you cleaned the 1st queue is when you'll look at not urgent but important (do later). This is where most of your items will appear.
- Urgent items that are not important should be delegated to someone else who considers them important
- Not urgent nor important should be eliminated
Once you apply this filter, you apply the second matrix to "fine tune" the priorities based on their effort x impact.