Time-Wasters That Kill Our Productivity
We all want to be productive and make better use of our time, focused. And yet, there would be days when it seems we can’t finish any of our tasks and they just pile on. We often hear people say, “I don’t have enough time to get this done.”
How to Deal with Lack of Focus
“Where did my time go?” This was me when I sat down to finish writing a blog article but ended up working on something else. This was also me when I realized I’d been mindlessly watching YouTube videos when I had planned to do actual work. My lack of
Value Stream Mapping – Defining how to maximize the flow of value delivered
“Control your process, control your projects” In 2002 I worked for a multi-national technology organization delivering awesome products to consumers around the world. In the early 2000s, the company was in a race to be the best product company on the planet. I was on an Enterprise team whose
Working During Vacation: How to Deal with Holiday Guilt
Are you one of those people that are working during vacation? Or do you belong to the forty percent of Americans that don’t use their paid vacation time? And why? Well, research shows that those people are afraid of getting their worked piled up, or worse, being replaced while they
6 Tips for Effective Product Backlog Refinement
If you’re familiar with Scrum, you might have heard the term backlog refinement. Though not an official Scrum ceremony based on the official Scrum guide, Scrum practitioners have found backlog refinement an important event in their practice. But many are struggling to keep a good backlog refinement session going.
How to Delegate Tasks Better to Get More Done
In order to be a good manager, you need to learn how to effectively delegate tasks. If you want to do more work, you are going to need extra help. That means getting more people on board. Just because you are the manager or team leader, does not mean
