the.com/mise en place

means The practice of prepping and arranging every ingredient and tool before you start cooking, so the actual cooking happens without a scramble.

from Borrowed straight from French, where 'mise en place' literally means 'putting in place.' It migrated from home kitchens into professional ones as part of the rigorous brigade system of French culinary training, where cutting boards, bowls of diced onion, and measured spices are lined up like surgical instruments before service begins. Chefs then exported the phrase itself — untranslated, badge and all — into English kitchen vocabulary, and later into offices and productivity talk, wherever people wanted to sound disciplined about having their ducks in a row before starting work.