When you’ve committed to a solution and are midway through the project, you’re in, there is no out (unless it is so bad that everyone is throwing up their hands, toss keyboards over their walls and generally ready to storm the cloud in the hopes of pulling it down). But you’re not there, you’re working with a solution that might not be perfect but it’s 90% of what you need, so sure there is some…
We put way too much stock into working about the Days of the Week and the “core” hours that go along with it. If I can, I make every day of the week different – sometimes I do a drop-off, other times I take my time, I might take a bus or drive, I go into different offices. There are days I work like a madman from seven till noon and then stop for the…
You need those breaks. The space in between. The pauses in what you are doing. The Mindless Time that enables you to stop and think, pull back, think, pause on what you are doing, reconsider what’s next, plan the direction, move forward. Without you’ll always be chasing fires with no goal in mind.
Progress Bars in software exist only to keep us entertained while “something” happens. In many cases, they are incorrect and based on the best guess of what might be happening at a particular point in time. They are guesstimates of a calculation that looks at the work to be performed, adds in some variance for connection speed and comes up with a timed estimate for when work will be done. The best project bars keep…
An Open SLACK Channel. A OneNote shared with everyone. A Basecamp project that everyone can post to. A Google Doc that everyone fills in. A text file that everyone updates. A conference call where people jump on if they have a problem but don’t need to attend if they don’t? There are so many options available to you and your team that can solve the problem you are having with people not attending status meetings…