{"id":"lead-decision-rights-who-decides-table","audience":"managers","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"intermediate","technique":"context","title":"Clarify decision rights for your team in a who-decides table","free":false,"task":"Create a decision-rights table in markdown with columns Decision, Who decides, Who must be consulted, Who is informed. Exactly 5 rows for the decisions in the notes. Who decides is exactly one name. Use the final assignments from the notes, and write \"unassigned\" where the notes name nobody. Output only the table.","materialLabel":"Team notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Team Harbor (7 people). Lead: Rina. Decisions that keep causing confusion:\n\n1. Sprint scope: Rina decides. Consult Tomas (tech lead) and Mei (design). Inform the whole team.\n2. Release go/no-go: Tomas decides (earlier it was Rina; Rina handed it to Tomas on Nov 1). Consult QA lead Pablo. Inform support (Ana).\n3. Buying small tools under $500: Pablo decides alone. Inform Rina.\n4. Hiring a contractor: not decided who decides. Rina thinks it's her; Finance (Lukas) says it's his.\n5. Customer-facing wording changes: Mei decides. Consult Ana (support). Inform Rina.\n6. Team social events: Not a decision-rights topic. Skip.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":150}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Old decider","why":"The AI keeps Rina on go/no-go.","fix":"Say: \"Rina handed go/no-go to Tomas on Nov 1.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Picking a side","why":"The AI assigns the contractor decision.","fix":"Say: \"If the notes name nobody, write unassigned.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Extra rows","why":"The AI adds social events.","fix":"Say: \"Exactly 5 rows.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Wrong columns","why":"The AI uses RACI letters.","fix":"Say: \"Columns: Decision, Who decides, Who must be consulted, Who is informed.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"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 cell: \"each cell under 10 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":"Columns","patterns":["decision","who decides","consulted","informed"]},{"label":"One name","patterns":["exactly one name","one name"]},{"label":"Unassigned","patterns":["unassigned"]},{"label":"Final","patterns":["final","handed","latest"]},{"label":"Only table","patterns":["only the table"]}],"hint":"Name the columns, require one decider, and give the rule for unclear ownership.","rubricLabels":["The table has columns Decision, Who decides, Who must be consulted and Who is informed and exactly five rows (sprint scope, release go/no-go, small tools, contractor hiring, wording changes)","Release go/no-go lists Tomas as the decider (the Nov 1 handoff), small tools lists Pablo, and contractor hiring has Who decides as unassigned","Each Who decides cell has exactly one name or unassigned, and team social events are not in the table"]}