Many fine managers are good at interfacing with people and coaching them up, but behind their backs, youâll hear whispers. In his book Project Management for Non-Project Managers, author Jack Ferraro outlines what a good project plan does.
Kronos, the HR and payroll provider, has been hacked, with its private cloud services being held for ransom. Whether or not you are a Kronos client, here are contingency plans you need to make.
Thorin Klosowski gives you seven steps to follow for a good digital cleanup in an article for The New York Timesâs âWirecutter.â
Create an action item list based on an email.
Whether you use OneNote, Evernote or Google Keep, your notetaking app can help you organize your work, collaborate with team members and keep your email inbox tidy. Of the three, OneNote Desktop (2016) is the most fully featured, but many of these uses are viable in any popular notetaking app.
Disaster recovery and business continuity planning are not new concepts. Whether you had a recovery plan or not, you have more clarity around what it might be like to be forced to do business away from the office in an emergency. If you donât have a disaster recovery program, this is a good time to start collecting data to make one.
The art of resource estimation can be tricky; our planning is frequently overly optimistic. Psychologists use a term called the âplanning fallacyâ to explain this effect, and to explain why we usually underestimate the amount of time it will take us to complete a task. Writer Jessica Greene suggests some more concrete estimation techniques.
âIâhave two kinds of problems: the urgent and the important,â Dwight D. Eisenhower purportedly said, though he didnât claim the original thought as his own. âThe urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.â From this musing emerged the time management method known as the Eisenhower Matrix.
When urgent requests pop up from more than one person, and youâre already crunched for time, whatâs the best way to handle them? Use these four fixes.
More and more positions are expected to implement these practices day to day. Try waterfall project management, which involves a clearly laid-out process that is followed from start to finish.
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