Introduction to Time Management for Busy Devs and Ops

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

Lincoln 4

LISA15: Culture
M8
Thomas A. Limoncelli, Stack Overflow
Description: 

Devs and Ops have a time management problem: There are too many projects. Too many interruptions. Too many distractions. This tutorial presents fundamental techniques for eliminating interruptions and distractions so you have more time for projects, prioritization techniques so the projects you do work on have the most impact, plus "The Cycle System," which is the easiest and most effective way to juggle all your tasks without dropping any.

Who should attend: 

Sysadmins, devs, operations, and their managers

Take back to work: 

By the end of this class, you will be able to schedule and prioritize your work (rather than be interruption-driven), have perfect follow-through (never forget a request), and limit your work-time to 40 hours a week (have a life).

Topics include: 
  • Why typical “time management” strategies don’t work for sysadmins
  • What makes “to-do” lists fail, and how to make them work
  • How to eliminate “I forgot” from your vocabulary
  • How to manage interruptions: preventing them, managing the ones you get
  • Delegating to coworkers without them knowing
  • Achieving perfect follow-through
  • The Cycle System for recording and processing to-do lists
  • Prioritization techniques
  • Task grouping: batching, sharding, and multitasking
  • Handling situations like a big outage disrupting your perfectly planned day
Presentation Type: 
Training