Prioritization

Hurry, or Something Smells Here [Archive]

Hurry, or Something Smells Here [Archive]

Hurry, or Something Smells Here

When I think about various problems organizations face, especially recurring ones, the most characteristic symptom that something is wrong is hurry.

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Technical Leader Worries: I Have Too Many Things to Do

Technical Leader Worries: I Have Too Many Things to Do

Those wonderful days when the only thing you did was writing code are gone. Now you are a leader. You are doing everything: attending or conducting meetings, removing impediments, mediating between team members and the rest of the organization, reading or writing some kind of reports (and you deceive yourself that spending two hours in Excel counts as programming because of some smartly used formulas) and so on. You are in a hurry all the time, and it never ends.

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The Key to Time Management

There are several topics that constantly come to my mind and, with each new discovery, I reach a new level of understanding. One such topic is “time management.”

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