Principlev1
Allocate team attention explicitly across categories
Allocate team attention explicitly across categories (committed priorities, responsive buffer, exploration) and make this budget visible to stakeholders to prevent reactive work from consuming all capacity.
Why This Is a Principle
This principle derives from information consuming attention (Information and attention have an inverse relationship: a) and attention being finite and requiring allocation (Attention is a finite cognitive resource that must be). It prescribes budgeting mechanisms based on the foundational constraint that unallocated attention defaults to whoever is loudest rather than what is most important.