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Where I work it's lack of process. I get work thrown at me randomly from all directions. Also with deadlines that I have no say in, usually created by non tech
by dmalik 9y ago
Where I work it's lack of process. I get work thrown at me randomly from all directions.
Also with deadlines that I have no say in, usually created by non technical people.
- _asummers 9y agoBug reports in Slack can die in a fire. Make me a ticket, I won't remember that there was a bug reported at 2:32 on Thursday if I'm not taking care of it right then, and there will be reams of text to scroll back through to find it.
- tomjen3 9y agoI am reading through GTD now (brought it years ago, but in an amazing twist of events, never got through it) and his suggestion would be to have exactly one in place, where all your information gets put, then you sort through it one at a time, not to do the item, but to figure out where the item belongs: in your case it is very clear that it does not belong on slack, but in a bug tracking system, so just put it there.
- virtualized 9y agoIt's a cycle: Boss: "Please do this one small thing for me immediately!" Boss' reward center is stimulated and they forget about the one small thing shortly after. The other ten one small things get pushed back. Boss remembers about a few one small things from weeks or months ago. "Why does everything take so long? Your productivity is too low." Boss comes up with another bad idea to feed their one small thing addiction. Back to the beginning.
- tomjen3 9y agoI had similar issues -- I ended up writing relatively copious notes, which meant that I didn't lose track of what I was doing and I could answer when asked what the status was of X, "oh yeah, you told me to do that on tuesday, but I had put it aside due to foo, bar and the release of bax".