{"id":"exec-weekly-decision-digest-three-decisions","audience":"project-managers","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"beginner","technique":"format","title":"Create a weekly decision digest with the decision, owner and date","free":false,"task":"Create the weekly decision digest in plain text. Line 1 is exactly: Decisions this week. Then exactly 3 lines in the form Decision - Owner - Date (YYYY-MM-DD), for the three decisions marked final. Last line exactly: Open items are in the tracker. Use the final dates and leave out proposals and anything marked draft.","materialLabel":"Decision log (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Decision log - week of 2025-02-10\n\nD1: Move the beta launch to March 18. Status: FINAL. Owner: Priya. Decided 2025-02-11. (Proposed March 11 earlier; changed.)\nD2: Use Vendor B for payments. Status: FINAL. Owner: Omar. Decided 2025-02-12.\nD3: Add a self-serve cancellation flow. Status: DRAFT (needs legal review). Owner: Lena.\nD4: Freeze feature work from March 3. Status: FINAL. Owner: Tomas. Decided 2025-02-13.\nD5: Hire two contractors. Status: PROPOSAL (not decided). Owner: Sam.\nD6: Rename the product. Status: FINAL but withdrawn on Feb 13 (reopened). Owner: Ines.\n\nNote: use the date each decision was made, not the date it takes effect.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":60},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Including drafts","why":"The AI lists the cancellation flow.","fix":"Say: \"Only decisions marked final and not withdrawn.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Wrong middle lines","why":"The AI includes drafts or uses the wrong date format.","fix":"Say: \"Three final decisions, dates as YYYY-MM-DD.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Wrong date","why":"The AI uses the effective date.","fix":"Say: \"Use the date each decision was made.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Missing first or last line","why":"The AI adds a greeting.","fix":"Say: \"Use the exact first and last lines.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Markdown","why":"The AI uses a table.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text.\"","checks":["plainText"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap each line: \"each line under 14 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap each part instead, for example: \"each line under 12 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Exact lines","patterns":["exactly","first line","last line"]},{"label":"Format","patterns":["decision - owner - date"]},{"label":"Final only","patterns":["final","only"]},{"label":"ISO date","patterns":["yyyy-mm-dd"]},{"label":"Plain","patterns":["plain text"]}],"hint":"Give the exact first and last lines, the line format, and which decisions count.","rubricLabels":["Line 1 is exactly \"Decisions this week\" and the last line is exactly \"Open items are in the tracker\"","The three middle lines are the final decisions: the beta launch (Priya, 2025-02-11), Vendor B for payments (Omar, 2025-02-12) and the feature freeze (Tomas, 2025-02-13), each in the form Decision - Owner - Date","The draft, the proposal and the withdrawn renaming decision are not included, and dates use YYYY-MM-DD"]}