Archive for March, 2008
I’ve been reading Getting Things Done by David Allen. In it, he presents a concept of asking yourself, “What’s the next action?” when you have a project or task to move forward. What if we applied this to our work? On your assigned tasks, ask this question. On any issue you [...]
I started a work from home trial. Here is the contact for my team to help my working remotely be a success.
I will be working from home on Fridays during March and April. This is a trial to see how it works.
Here is some information to help us work together when I [...]
I have always viewed mail that is sent to me as a CC: recipient as informational. I think of this for email as well. If my name is in the TO: field, I assume there is some action being requested of me (even if it is only, “Read this email!”). If my name [...]
The more I think about it and experience it, setup time is something to minimize. Any complicated task requires setup time to get you into the task. Any time that is interrupted, you have to go through some level of setup again.
One key to getting work done is to arrange blocks of uninterrupted [...]
Today, I am concentrating on prep. work for three planning sessions I have scheduled for Wed., Fri., and Mon. The goal for these sessions is to identify the remaining tasks that we know of, for interfaces and forms, on our project. Next, we are going to [...]
