Time Management

[Troll]

Thanks for your contribution troll. Living up to your name again are we?

Hey ho... another neg rep from you

It seemed the obvious answer - the industry is awash with people who come up with 'ideas' but the same people are unable to implement or understand any limitations around those same ideas

[doodab]

For most things I use my brain. If I forget something that means it wasn't important enough for me to remember it.

I also use a bunch of computery things, one of my longest outstanding tasks is to "consolidate" those. One note, office online, google docs, google calander, springpad & outlook all get a look in.

I also use old fashioned notebooks, particularly these but also moleskin ones as I went through a phase of buying them and they started piling up around the place so I thought I had better use some of them. I very rarely look in the books once I have written in them, the main benefit here is that writing stuff down improves retention.

[MarillionFan]

I'd disregard any advice on this matter posted by anybody with more than 100 posts.

HTH

BTW AtW I found one of your old To Do lists off your SKA server. Might want to spring clean.

To Do List - AtW - 13th Feb 2008

1) Order Sofa - Start: 13th Feb 2008 Complete : 31st Dec 2013
2) Yearly Bath - Start : 14th July 2008 Outstanding
3) Pot Noodle - Start : 18th Feb 2008 21:30 Complete : 18th Feb 2008 21:31
4) Create SKA Thread - Start : 19th Feb 2008 Complete : 19th Feb 2008
5) Create SKA Thread - Start : 20th Feb 2008 Complete : 20th Feb 2008
6) Create SKA Thread - Start : 21th Feb 2008 Complete : 21th Feb 2008
7) Create SKA Thread - Start : 22th Feb 2008 Complete : 22th Feb 2008
.......................
204) Create SKA Thread - Start : 19th Nov 2008 Complete : 19th Nov 2008
205) Become Millionaire - Start : 13th Feb 2008 Complete : 31st Dec 3015

[Old Greg]

I keep everything in my head and never forget anything. It is part of my new guerilla project management approach.

[Zippy]

I suppose it depends on why you thik you lack organisation skills. Are you constantly interrupted? Do you get distracted by the more interesting things?

I find (and I hate this term) time-boxing is quite effective. I ll draw up a to do list at the beginning of the day, then tell myself I will spend n hours on problem x followed by n+/-1 hours on problem y. I keep good notes on everything I do and then check items off my list. That lets me give progress reports to people who might be hassling me.
I've never found Outlook etc. much good for managing myself but can be quite good for helping to manage micro-managers.

[MarillionFan]

I keep everything in my head and never forget anything. It is part of my new guerilla project management approach.

Yes. That's the style known as 'winging it'.

[eek]

Yes. That's the style known as 'winging it'.

I thought it was more:

tulip, I knew there was something else we meant to include (analysis,testing, documentation....).

[TykeMerc]

Yes. That's the style known as 'winging it'.

Guilty as charged m'lud (sometimes).

I have tried various bits of task management software in the past, but found them all far too annoying and time intensive to populate. I do add appointment reminders for critical tasks in Outlook too.

[doodab]

Guilty as charged m'lud (sometimes).

I have tried various bits of task management software in the past, but found them all far too annoying and time intensive to populate. I do add appointment reminders for critical tasks in Outlook too.

I would say that is good time management. I only bother to do that with the absolutely critical stuff.

[scooterscot]

All my tasks are broken into small manageable sizes. Nothing more than one hour at a time.

I do change or move to another task until the 1st is complete.