Can You See It? There were some great discussions at this week’s TVSMC meet up about observing and visualising work, particularly in talking with Simon Bostock. The challenge is that “knowledge work” isn’t as visible as “traditional work.” If I am ploughing a field, it is pretty obvious when I am half way through, and [...]
Read 'How Balanced is Your Workload?' >>For sometime we’ve been looking at the next level of planning detail in Milestone Planner: Actions. It’s very deliberately actions and not tasks or to do’s! All of us here have used various to do list tools over the years, and it almost always ends up the same way :- an unfeasibly long list of [...]
Read 'Flow From Milestones to Actions' >>It’s been an interesting few days in the UK, but my eyes have been drawn to a news story about US president Obama. It’s positioned as a bombshell, but I’m not so sure why. “‘You’re coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to [...]
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Before you read this you’ll need a pen and a piece of paper… OK. Draw a square. Now draw a triangle on top of the square. On the right hand side of the triangle, just on top, draw a rectangle. Now inside the first square you drew draw four other squares – but make sure [...]
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