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Productivity: Information overload and managing the flow
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StepStone Solutions
18 June 2010
Productivity:Information Overload and Managing the Flow
Cuong Nguyen HungSoftware Engineer
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Agenda
• Effectiveness• Efficiency• Tools
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The world …
… and developers
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Effectiveness vs Efficiency
Effectiveness
• Doing „right“ things• Process-oriented
• Management
Efficiency
• Doing things „right“• Goal-oriented
• Implementation
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EFFECTIVENESS
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Inbox
• Information coming in -> needs to be triaged -> action• Triage: separate, sort, select ...
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Types of work
• Pre-defined work: planned• Work as it appears: interruption• Defining works
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4 Ds
• Do it• Drop it• Delegate it• Defer it
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Things we spends time on …
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EFFICIENCY
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Data streams
• Phone• Work Email
• Boss (team lead)• CCed vs To
• Personal Email• Family, Wife, Girl friend(s)• All others
• Google Reader/Facebook/Twitter
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• Don’t check email in the morning (till 10am)• If you respond, they will respond …
• “If you are the fastest responder to a problem, you will get all the problems. Don’t put energy into things you don’t want more of.”
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Let someone else guide
• In anything you need to learn, find a person who can tell you what is• Need to know• Should know• Nice to know• Useless
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TOOLS
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News
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Outlook
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Sticky Notes
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Phone
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Further readings
• http://www.hanselman.com/blog/OredevKeynoteInformationOverloadAndManagingTheFlowEffectivenessAndEfficiency.aspx
• http://workawesome.com/ • http://zenhabits.net/
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THANK YOU
