Re: how do you manage your project list

From: Jeff C <backseatdba_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 20:37:39 -0800
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Yeah I stayed late today to get stuff done. I wish i could convince my boss the allow work from at least one day a week. He is an extreme extrovert so he doesn't get it.

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> On Dec 3, 2014, at 6:02 PM, Patrice sur GMail <patrice.boivin_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> it's hard. Monday this week I managed to go through a whole day without ever starting Outlook, to avoid e-mails so I could work on a migration project.
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> I sometimes think I should just come to work very late in the day and stay through most of the evening instead of work at the same time as everyone else.
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> I liked this article, I thought it was bang on
> http://swizec.com/blog/why-programmers-work-at-night/swizec/3198
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>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Oscar Ofiana <oj.ofiana_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Jeff,
>> 
>> Have you checked out Randy Pausch's Time Management lecture? Some of the ideas presented in it can be a little too detailed and time-consuming, but the most helpful idea I picked up on was making the TODO quadrant, where you seperate and prioritize tasks into:
>> 	1 - Urgent and important
>> 	2 - Important but not urgent
>> 	3 - Urgent, not important
>> 	4 - Not urgent, not important.
>> 
>> Just having this grid on a post-it or on a pin-up board by my monitor really helped to provide a general map of my tasks and what/when it needed to be done.
>> 
>> Hth,
>> Oscar
>> 
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>>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Jeff C <backseatdba_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Fellow DBA's,
>>> How do you manage your work load? I am not taking database work load but your project list.  I don't know about you but I have my projects that I need to get done but I also constantly get interrupted by other developers asking questions, needing help with a query performance, or they mention some data they need from another database and I have to decided what is the best way to approach it.  I rarely get my projects worked on.
>>> Do you have some system or tool you use to keep your head straight?  I used to be the multitasker master but after 10 years and the growth of our environment, that is not easy anymore.
>>>  
>>> Looking for any tips anybody might have.
>>>  
>>>  
>>> Thank you

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