What can I do to be more productive? Perhaps the most asked question by today’s working IT professional (probably all working professionals for that matter). Francesco Cirillo asked himself this question during his time as a university student in the 1980’s. Unable to keep up with his mounting assignments, Cirillo began to suspect simply sitting […]
We all procrastinate. There are lots of possible reasons to explain it: it’s a task we don’t feel we’re good at or we resent having to do it because we don’t think it’s our job or it’s just not as much fun as what we feel like doing. Whatever the cause of procrastination, sometimes what […]
You have a project status report due in a week. You don’t love writing reports. It’s not what you went into IT to do. But you have to do it and part of your report requires a comparison to similar systems. So, you go online to check some statistics that you want to cite in […]
Welcome back. Now comes the fun part. But first … A quick review: From the VC community we learned the basic approach for making meetings productive and valuable: Focus the goals and objectives of meetings and then wrap them in a tight time frame. The perfect example: the seven-minute triage meeting. The objection If it […]
