Many managers and developers think about improving productivity. As with many things, productivity is in the eye of the beholder. We used to measure productivity in lines of code. That led very quickly to believing that the developers produce what they type. Well, what do they do the rest of the time? In fact, if
I’ve recently posted on the Typemock blog on test organization, and gave an example of how organizing Outlook folders is not as effective as dumping everything in one bin and using “Search”. Here’s a quote (from myself, by myself): The search box finds things much quicker. There’s also a penalty in the filing system. For
Time for another thing that works. I’ve written about my amazing ability to juggle things, and how I can mostly manage it. And whenever pressure rises, and tasks are in abundance, I begin thinking about stuff. What else do I have to do? What am I missing? What do I need to do first when
Apparently, I’ve become addicted to my task list. My latest “things that work” to juggle tasks works great. Except when it doesn’t. When’s that? Weekends. I took precautions to have the ability to write down tasks when I’m away from my computer. But, I still manage to think about things to do when I’m not
In the last couple of months, I’ve been doing some hefty juggling. Being a very disorganized person naturally, doesn’t really reconcile with managing multiple suppliers, following up, and making sure I don’t become a bottleneck. For my agile viewers – I’ve tried post-it notes. I found out that this didn’t work when working with external