Personal productivity
New Year's Resolution: How to Fulfill It?
In a good mood, it’s easy to make an ambitious New Year’s resolution to yourself for the new year. But how can you actually follow through? This is what the article is about.
Management
Checklist
Advanced Checklist Techniques: Dynamic Checklists
It seems that creative tasks are not about the checklist at all. That's not so. There is also a special flexible type of checklists that can be useful.
Fundamental concepts
Goal. To-Do List. What Is the Difference?
Goals and to-do lists should be related somehow. Yes, they do. Let’s see their indirect connection from the perspective of productivity and efficiency.
Checklist
Types of Checklists. Defensive Checklists and Negative Checklists
There are two more types of checklists besides the Read-Do and Do-Confirm. You might haven’t heard of them, but definitely encountered.
So Business List
So Business List. Observation in the Workplace with Station Observation Checklist
Getting acquainted with observation checklist in organizations. Post written together with former Standards Director of a 1100+ restaurant chain.
Personal productivity
Milestones vs. Tasks. Mastering Both
Online, you can discover some aspects about the proper setting of goals. What about milestones and tasks? Focusing on them can ensure forward progress in personal productivity and project management, paying you back good.
Management
Action Checklists and Inspection Checklists
There are two types of checklists: action checklists and inspection checklists. Their differences are more significant than just the style of formulating the items.
List
The most famous list of software development. Part 2, Definition of Done
The article tells about the even more famous list in software development, the Definition of Done.
Checklist
Checklist tree for whole-company processes
Not every process can be expressed with a checklist, but many can. But what if the process is multifaceted and goes through the entire organization? In this case, a tree of checklists can help.
List
The checklist is just the beginning, part 3
In the third part of the article, we build the checklists into the knowledge work for the second time by transforming them into templates.
List
The checklist is just the beginning, part 2
In the second part of the article, we build the checklist into the knowledge work using software tools and automatization.
Checklist
Why is it difficult to introduce checklists into the daily activities of an organization?
Checklists provide benefits for quality and consistency in the organization. However, people tend to dislike them. Reflections on the phenomenon.