Slight deviation from the normal Tuesday & Thursday visualisations this week, due to OmniGraffle’s (an excellant Visio substitute) trial version expiring on me so I can’t do any visualisations until I buy a copy at the weekend. So this week I’m going to do some lists instead!
What is the task?
Describe the task.
Describe the desired output [...]
Regularly taking time to pause and then review and reflect on how you could improve, and then experimenting based on those thoughts is key to personal improvement and increasing productivity. This technique has really been highlighted to me since starting to use Agile development methodologies like Scrum where at at the end of each [...]
Note taking is something I’ve touched on before as part of problem solving when stuck, however I believe it is a topic that deserves a post of its own. Note taking should be a constant activity, most usually I’ve seen this done with a paper notebook and pen, in fact most jobs I’ve been in [...]
In my previous post I talked about work blocks as a way to prevent meeting requests from fragmenting your working day to such an extent that they prevent flow and impair your ability to get stuff done. Above is a graphical example of roughly how my work blocks are arranged in my calender: I’ve two [...]
Since starting work at my current workplace, which has almost two thousand employees in the same building, I’ve found myself in more meetings that I am used to. This is due to being in a central technology team in a large studio with many teams we need to communicate with via meetings. This, combined with [...]