Category: Productivity
This is about being effective with your time and being focused on the right things to do each day or at each stage.
It could overlap with PM when we talk about your time on a project.
Are you just going for the easy answers?
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When you get questions from clients or customers, do you often default to the answers you’ve used before? I know I have, because it’s easy. A client comes to me and wants a store. They have a few things like books, plus a bit of content that is only available to purchasers. My first thought
QuickMailer: Send only email
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If you’re one of those who complains about email, you need to understand that email doesn’t suck — it’s the way you use it that’s less than optimal. That thing where you have one email to send, and then get sidetracked by all those incoming messages — that’s what sucks. Yeah, I could talk about
Why do we default to fast?
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Why must everything be fast? Why are we looking for continual shortcuts around being in the moment? Do things taste better if you take more time to make them? Speed coffee Making a pot of coffee is a relatively simple process. You grind beans and pour them in the filter. You put water in the
7 Ways to Maintain Work-Life Balance
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A while ago Jeffro wrote a post about needing to achieve balance. Unfortunately for him, the post was prompted by a discussion he had with his wife about how much time he spent working. Seriously, read the comments in that post. Many of them have awesome suggestions for maintaining balance in your life. Here are
Cut the Context Switch Out of Email
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Email can mean a bunch of context switching if you’re not careful. Allow me to illustrate. You get an email from Client 1, and of course just dive into addressing whatever they wanted. That could mean anything, from a bunch of research or some code or changes, to a PSD or writing some content. Then
Measure the Right Things
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What do you use to measure employee performance? For many years I worked in places where time was what I was paid for and so work time was what was measured. This became a problem when I’d see other people spending the day on Facebook and still getting paid. They produced nothing, but production wasn’t
Doing the wrong thing faster…
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So you’re not getting business, but you’re going to ‘mixers’ and doing some other marketing pushes. A few leads come out of that effort but nothing that’s turned into real work yet. Of course the answer must be that you need to attend more of these events and do more of the current marketing things.
Did you stop learning or get focused?
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My friend John Locke wrote a great post about people stagnating in their learning. I’ve found this to be true with people learning development. Some keep digging and others stop because programming was just a fad for them. John’s main premise is that people stop learning as they get older. But one thing I’ve noticed
LOVE and HATE Process
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I love a standard set of rules to operate by. It’s how I do my email communication with prospects and clients. It’s how I don’t forget my keys in the car, or how I don’t lock myself out of the office. Process is awesome, until it’s not. Ugh, the meetings One company I worked at
Why that ‘fun’ project isn’t ‘fun’ at all
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You’re likely all familiar with Google’s “20% time” policy, where employees can use up to 20% of their time to work on anything — outside of their regular projects — that will benefit Google. This policy has led to many awesome things we use today, like Gmail. If you were at PressNomics 2015 you likely
