{"id":"lead-two-projects-one-engineer-holiday-capacity","audience":"project-managers","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"advanced","technique":"verification","title":"Schedule two projects for one engineer around a holiday week","free":false,"task":"Plan the engineer's hours for the three weeks as a table with the header Week | Project A hours | Project B hours | Capacity, one row per week. Follow the capacity facts, finish Project A first, and never exceed a week's capacity. Show the capacity per week. Then add the line \"Shortfall:\" with the hours Project B is short by (write 0 if none), and the line \"Both deadlines met:\" followed by Yes or No. Plain text, under 90 words.","materialLabel":"Planning facts (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"One engineer, two projects. Today is Monday, Nov 24.\n\n- Normal capacity: 20 project hours per week.\n- Thursday Nov 27 and Friday Nov 28 are holidays: each removes 4 hours of capacity from that week.\n- Project A: 30 hours of work left. Due Friday, Dec 5.\n- Project B: 24 hours of work left. Due Friday, Dec 12.\n- Weeks: Nov 24-28, Dec 1-5, Dec 8-12.\n- The engineer can work on both projects in the same week.\n- The product manager says \"just work faster\". That does not change the hours.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":90},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Ignoring the holiday","why":"The AI uses 20 hours for week one.","fix":"Say: \"The holidays remove 8 hours in week 1, so capacity is 12.\"","checks":["r0","r1"]},{"title":"Not finishing A first","why":"The AI splits time evenly.","fix":"Say: \"Finish Project A first.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Claiming both met","why":"The AI assumes it can be done.","fix":"Say: \"Add up the capacity and report any shortfall.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Wrong table","why":"The AI adds extra columns.","fix":"Say: \"Exactly this header and three rows.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Markdown","why":"The AI bolds the verdict.","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 part instead, for example: \"each line under 15 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Gives the header","patterns":["week \\|","project a hours","capacity"]},{"label":"Holiday capacity","patterns":["holiday","4 hours","8 hours"]},{"label":"A first","patterns":["finish project a first","a first"]},{"label":"Never exceed capacity","patterns":["never exceed","capacity"]},{"label":"Shortfall and verdict lines","patterns":["shortfall:","both deadlines met"]}],"hint":"Give the header, the capacity rules including the holiday, and the two closing lines.","rubricLabels":["Has the header Week | Project A hours | Project B hours | Capacity and exactly three rows with capacity 12, 20 and 20","Project A gets 12 hours in week 1 and 18 in week 2 (finished by Dec 5), and Project B gets 2 hours in week 2 and 20 in week 3, with no week above its capacity","The Shortfall line says 2 and the Both deadlines met line says No"]}