Mutually Exclusive and Collectively Exhaustive (MECE)
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Mutually Exclusive and Collectively Exhaustive (MECE)
매 한 줄
"매 항목 겹치지 않고 매 합쳐 전체". Barbara Minto가 McKinsey에서 정형화한 매 categorization 원칙으로, 매 합리적 의사소통과 매 logical decomposition의 매 backbone이다. 2026 LLM agent의 task partitioning에서도 매 동일 원칙이 적용된다.
prompt="""
Decompose the task into MECE subtasks:
- Subtasks must NOT overlap (ME).
- Subtasks must cover the full task (CE).
- Output JSON list. Verify by sketching the union set.
Task: {task}"""