Comments on: How to prioritise your work http://www.onemanwrites.co.uk/2010/01/21/how-to-prioritise-your-work/ musings on technical communications Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:40:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: What don’t you do? | one man writes http://www.onemanwrites.co.uk/2010/01/21/how-to-prioritise-your-work/comment-page-1/#comment-20172 What don’t you do? | one man writes Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:06:08 +0000 http://www.onemanwrites.co.uk/?p=568#comment-20172 [...] things, and for that you’ll need to get some of the interested parties together to help. I’ve already covered how I do that but to make that process a bit slicker (it’s very ad-hoc at the moment) I’ll be setting [...] [...] things, and for that you’ll need to get some of the interested parties together to help. I’ve already covered how I do that but to make that process a bit slicker (it’s very ad-hoc at the moment) I’ll be setting [...]

]]> By: Milan Davidovic http://www.onemanwrites.co.uk/2010/01/21/how-to-prioritise-your-work/comment-page-1/#comment-19240 Milan Davidovic Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:44:44 +0000 http://www.onemanwrites.co.uk/?p=568#comment-19240 Hmmm... either it's Museum of Soviet Calculators on the Web: http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/soviet.html or it's "Must haves, Should haves, Could haves, Won't haves": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Systems_Development_Method#moscow I'm going to take a wild guess and go with the second one. (This may look like I'm making a point about defining abbreviations, but really I thought it was cool that they had those Soviet calculators online... ) Hmmm… either it’s Museum of Soviet Calculators on the Web:
http://www.taswegian.com/MOSCOW/soviet.html

or it’s “Must haves, Should haves, Could haves, Won’t haves”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Systems_Development_Method#moscow

I’m going to take a wild guess and go with the second one.

(This may look like I’m making a point about defining abbreviations, but really I thought it was cool that they had those Soviet calculators online… )

]]> By: Ivan Walsh http://www.onemanwrites.co.uk/2010/01/21/how-to-prioritise-your-work/comment-page-1/#comment-19096 Ivan Walsh Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:30:25 +0000 http://www.onemanwrites.co.uk/?p=568#comment-19096 Hi Gordon, Like most of us I’m under the whip to produce things every, so I find lists helpful, but only up to a point. What I've started to do recently – and it seems to be working – is spending 15 min every night checking where I wasted time and where I was more productive. Trends begin to emerge and I try to iron things (circular emails can be a big time-waster) and also see where I've made little quick wins. Then I fine tune my weekly plan for the next day... The next morning I have a quick mtg with myself (I know!) and create a little plan of attack. I list what I plan to do AND prepare contingencies in case others try to distract me, “Ivan, I forgot to tell you about this meeting – can you pop in?” “Does the PM know about this? She’s expected my status report at 4?” What's important to me managing conflicting situations? e.g. when others try to pull you in 4 directions at the same time – and all are kinda justified — but making sure that I don't take the hit if my deadlines get missed because of their lack of planning. Kind of 'Tai Chi Productivity'. Ivan Hi Gordon,

Like most of us I’m under the whip to produce things every, so I find lists helpful, but only up to a point.

What I’ve started to do recently – and it seems to be working – is spending 15 min every night checking where I wasted time and where I was more productive.

Trends begin to emerge and I try to iron things (circular emails can be a big time-waster) and also see where I’ve made little quick wins. Then I fine tune my weekly plan for the next day…

The next morning I have a quick mtg with myself (I know!) and create a little plan of attack.

I list what I plan to do AND prepare contingencies in case others try to distract me,

“Ivan, I forgot to tell you about this meeting – can you pop in?”

“Does the PM know about this? She’s expected my status report at 4?”

What’s important to me managing conflicting situations? e.g. when others try to pull you in 4 directions at the same time – and all are kinda justified — but making sure that I don’t take the hit if my deadlines get missed because of their lack of planning.

Kind of ‘Tai Chi Productivity’.

Ivan

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