Estimating your time (Execution, 4 of 6)

May 30th, 2008 by Sean Burke

In this cast we discuss estimating the time it takes to complete your deliverables. From our previous casts on this subject, we outlined the importance of determining deliverables for your team – now we are going to look at how and why you should take the next step – and that is estimating and tracking deliverable time.

The Goals of today’s cast are to share with you:

  • The importance on estimating deliverable time
  • The importance of measuring deliverable time
  • How this process can greatly impact your ability to execute
  • Steps that you can take today to start estimating and tracking your deliverable time
  • Making sure that the priority of deliverables are clear

Business Week – Beat the Clock; Alarming Stats & Fixes

April 21st, 2008 by Sean Burke

Ring, Ding, Tap, Knock…we are the interrupted workforce. Through our social training we have allowed interruptions to eat up 2.1 hours of our day (28% of the average workday)…ouch. But there is more, once we are off course it takes 25 minutes to return to the task we were working on before the break, if, that is we return to it at all…Houston we have a problem!

That’s the stats…Business Week writer Toddi Gutner, share some fixes:

- Rank your work in order of priority and complete the important stuff first
- Touch physical and digital documents only one time
- Estimate how you are going to invest your time
- Track your time to see how it measures against your projections
- Plan your time (from when you will check email, have meetings, clean your desk)
- Plan uniterruptable time (shut your door, phone goes straight to voicemail, headphones on – what ever it takes)

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