Advanced Time Management: Team Efficiency

Half Day Afternoon
(1:30 pm-5:00 pm)

Nautilus 2

SuperSysadmin
M10
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Google, Inc.
Description: 

This tutorial is also available for live streaming. 
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Attendees must bring a laptop for in-class exercises. Techniques will apply to any wiki or collaborative document system, but the labs and demos will be done using Google Apps.

Who should attend: 

All sysadmins who want to collaborate efficiently within their team and with others (even solo sysadmins will benefit!).

Take back to work: 

Techniques to help your IT team work better, faster, and more transparently.

Topics include: 
  • Meetings and email
    • Making meetings not suck
    • Handling meetings that can't be fixed
    • Stopping incoming email overload
    • Making sure your email gets read
    • How to get your co-workers to go along with your awesome ideas
  • Working better together using collaborative documents
    • Buy vs. build: How to get a team to agree
    • Common sysadmin uses of collaborative documents
    • Uncommon sysadmin uses of collaborative documents
    • Communicating a new design before you build it
    • Tracking loaner resources
    • Doing surveys
    • Assuring consistent results no matter who does the task
    • Making sure everyone on the team can share the work
    • Quick and easy way to document each service (and why you should)
    • Quick and easy way to document procedures (so others can do them for you)
    • Pager-duty tips for creating a feedback loop to assure constant improvement
    • Template for a simple IT department home page