Gantt Chart, that inherit its name from its inventor Henry Laurence Gantt, an American mechanical engineer, is a very good tool to follow the evolution of a project.
Mar 09
With constant growth in customers expectation in term of quality, cost and delivery, you can’t focus on all areas of a project. You have to choose what is critical and what is trivial.
In 1906, Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto created a mathematical formula to describe the unequal distribution of wealth in his country, observing that twenty percent of the people owned eighty percent of the wealth.
Nov 25
“Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention” — Herbert Simon
Most of us, knowledge workers, have to deal with HUGE amount of information each day. E-mails, RSS Feeds, Twits, etc… Too much information, especially badly handled, cause a lost of attention and focus.
In this blog post, I’ll share with you some ways to handle one of the biggest flow of information : RSS Feeds (I’ve already talked about e-mails in an earlier series of post : Inbox Zero).
Oct 12
Nowadays, with the multiplication of capable devices, and the mix between the private and the professional sphere, one of the key of productivity is to avoid loosing time synchronizing manually files and multiple data between your devices and places.
Imagine that you have a smartphone, a personal laptop, a family computer and a professional computer. Now think about all the datas you could need at the same time on each device : contact, agenda, email, rss feeds, bookmarks, notes, todos, files, music,… Add to this the need to access some data from anywhere (friends place, clients office, …). And finally, consider that your devices don’t obligatory run the same OS and don’t always run the same applications.
Jul 01
When your mind is full, it’s hard to concentrate, difficult to stay focused. And to achieve a high level of productivity, having a single thing to remember can be a breaker. In addition, having too much stuff in mind is the best way to forget most of them.
That’s a big reason to empty your mind by writing stuff down, or taking voice memo.
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