Scheduling is one of the major activities that take place in any time management system.
This entry, therefore, should be read after the entries in the post Ways to Use a Calendar have been read and thoroughly digested, for the ideas here to make sense.
Definition
Scheduling is taking a time demand and converting it into a time-slot in the calendar that has a defined start-time and end-time, on a specific date.
When the need arises, appointments are swapped around to different time-slots, depending on the circumstances at hand.
Principles
- A single calendar should be used to schedule all time demands.
- When time demands are scheduled into time-slots, there should be sufficient time between them to account for interruptions, recovery time and overruns. Continue reading “Component/Fundamental #6 – Scheduling”