Management is the organizational function that, like investment, gets things done efficiently, to gain the best return on all resources.
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How do I prevent being overwhelmed by my GTD inbox?
The first thing I learned about GTD was to get things "out of my head" into an inbox.
This results in an overly long Inbox list which tasks that I still need to rewrite into (multiple) "do-able" ...
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How to present my work overload to others
I'm getting overstretched with urgent tasks (writing reports, fixing bugs, etc) that are sapping my time away from non-urgent tasks (visioning, system integration, etc). From my perspective all the ...
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MBOs (Management By Objective), GTD and better solutions to managing knowledge workers
My boss wants to use MBOs to manage me. I am fairly new to GTD methods and it seems like they can be complementary to the MBO-style system. However, I seem to consistently struggle with the MBO ...
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Balancing time and quality
Are there any proven or benchmarked methodologies that can be leveraged to balance the challenge between maintaining quality in spite of strict timeline through a disciplined and consistent approach? ...
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Project Management Software for Software Development?
I have been looking around for relevant project management software in regards to this, but it is pretty much impossible to find, at the fault of how meta searchs of google work. When I search a ...
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Handling delayed delegating in GTD
In GTD, how do you handle delegating an action if the act of delegating itself cannot be accomplished right when you are processing your inbox, and in less than two minutes?
e.g. "summarize the last ...
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Agile for Students
Context: I am working on adapting agile to my life as a student, I have even brought together a few other students to do standups and get feedback as might be found within agile.
From my experience ...
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Personal Planning Software
I am currently planning my life in a text-based format, like this:
Yearly goals. Doesn't include concrete action steps.
Monthly goals: Specific action steps associated with the goals from (1).
Daily ...
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Team work and productivity: Noisy office vs quite room [closed]
I'm having a meeting in two hours and need lots of references and points. Basically, my university has a module for software development with a real client.
Some of my team members work in the ...
