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A one-week plan weighted to your lowest two
Walk through "A one-week plan weighted to your lowest two" in order, then name the proof that tells you it worked.
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A one-week plan weighted to your lowest twoAttack the gaps, then a full dry-run
- 1Mon–Tue. Your two lowest competencies, one per day: re-read the deep dive, then do the timed drill - a full take-home rebuild or a 45-minute whiteboard capacity rep on that exact gap.
- 2Wed. Execution drill: run the slipping-migration recovery end to end and produce the risk register and forcing escalation as artifacts, not narration.
- 3Thu. Values day: record the three debate prompts and the 90-second why-Cursor, grade for update-vs-hold and concreteness, re-record the weakest.
- 4Fri. Full mock loop dry-run: take-home walkthrough, whiteboard capacity plan, execution recovery and values round, all scored against this rubric.
- 5Weekend. Light flashcard review only. Rest beats cramming the night before intensity is being measured.
The point of the scorecard
The rubric converts a vague “am I ready?” into a ranked list of drills. Re-score after the Friday dry-run. If every competency clears a 4 and you can do the two things this role really tests - build a reconciled cost model with a defensible recommendation and design a capacity plan that names the cost of being wrong both ways - you're ready. If one competency still sits at a 2, that's the only thing left to work, so work exactly that.
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