Applied Research in a World of Increasing Time Demands
This article is a bit geeky, and reminds me of the kind of thinking I first learned to do in graduate school. It’s all about building accurate schedules for software development projects, and the need to drive down to small tasks in order to properly estimate the length of large projects. Click here to find …
In a prior post I described what it’s like to upgrade one’s skills at Scheduling. While there’s an immediate benefit to the professional who makes the jump, there is also an important benefit that comes from having an explicit schedule on paper, versus one that’s stored in one’s memory. Imagine that, for a moment,that your …
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I just saw an amazing video that shows the real-time progress of civilization over the past 200 years. The content is inspiring, but this post is actually about the technology. Following on the heels of my post on Migrating from Listing to Scheduling, can you imagine a time when you are able to manipulate your …
In the 2Time system, there is a critical point that must be crossed to make the jump from a Yellow Belt to an Orange Belt. At this point, a professional must change two major habits at once, doing much less Listing and more Scheduling. This is no mean feat. I’ll be covering this switch and …
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I realized recently that I need to add a critical sub-skill within the overall Discipline of Scheduling — it’s the ability to change a schedule as often as necessary. Back in the days of paper schedules this was a very difficult task, involving pencils, erasers, white-out and the like. It was easy to create a …
I just stumbled across a post over at Matt Cornell’s blog in which he shares an experiment he performed around the discipline of Scheduling. For those readers who are familiar with GTD®, you will notice that he clearly crosses a boundary that that particular system enforces. The schedule should only be used for items that …
I found an interesting article on the power of rituals at the Harvard Business Review publishing blog. I took the excerpt article from the post entitled “An 18 Minute Plan for Managing Your Day.” It talks about the power of scheduling and moving from a Yellow Belt to a White Belt in the practice of …
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In an earlier post on the apparent skills of Richard Branson at Capturing, what I didn’t think of doing is estimating the belt level at which he is performing this particular Fundamental. In retrospect, it seems as if he’s operating as an Orange Belt. Today, I was checking the recent tweets on time management, and …
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One confusing aspect of Bit Literacy is a contradiction that I found in the discussion around ToDo’s: the book calls for scalable solutions, while in the same chapter it describes 2 solutions that seem to ignore that sound advice, because they scale well. The author makes the point that many emails create the need to …
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In an earlier post entitled: Outlook’s Shortcomings 5 -Scheduling, I described one of the problems with Outlook — it’s not designed to help a user to use it’s calendar function to manage their daily activities. Instead, it was only added on to the email program as a nifty way to keep track of appointments. Users …
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