One other important thing to realise: prioritisation is the art of deciding what you are not going to do. When you prioritise, you place the highest value/risk things at the beginning. That way, when you run out of time, those things have been done. You put the lowest value things at the bottom. That way when you run out of time, those things have not been done.
I forget who I saw do this (it may have been Nat Pryce at a talk somewhere). He took a list of the items that needed to get done. He rendered the first item with full opacity. With each subsequent item, he reduced the opacity. At the end of the list, the items were invisible. Then he said, "This is roughly the likelihood of me getting these things done."
It's a mistake to draw a line on your list where you think the deadline will fall, because then you are fixing your scope as well as your time. But if each day you adjust the opacity of your list, hopefully people will get the point.
I forget who I saw do this (it may have been Nat Pryce at a talk somewhere). He took a list of the items that needed to get done. He rendered the first item with full opacity. With each subsequent item, he reduced the opacity. At the end of the list, the items were invisible. Then he said, "This is roughly the likelihood of me getting these things done."
It's a mistake to draw a line on your list where you think the deadline will fall, because then you are fixing your scope as well as your time. But if each day you adjust the opacity of your list, hopefully people will get the point.