<?php>Hello Worl...Ooh shiny! (2014.10.07-fredwebtech)
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My time management discussion slides from the talk I gave at FredWebTech in Frederick, MD on 2014.10.07
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<?php>Hello Worl...Ooh shiny! (2014.10.07-fredwebtech)
- 1. <?php echo 'Hello Worl...Oooh, Shiny! Presented by Sean Prunka Sr. PHP Engineer Manalto www.Manalto.com
- 4. ✘Why are distractions bad?Why are distractions bad? ✘What can I do about it?What can I do about it?
- 5. Why are distractions such a bad thing?Why are distractions such a bad thing?024681012 Late Interruption Early Interruption Small Interruption Big Interruption Uninterrupted EfficiencyMetric* Time on Task *NB: Efficiency Metric uses imaginary data points
- 6. What distractions do we face? ● Unavoidable – Meetings – Email – Phone – Coworkers – Bosses – Mental Blocks – Task Switching ● Avoidable – FOMO! ● Twitter ● FaceBook ● IRC ● G+ ● Etc. – Self Inflicted ● Smoke breaks ● Playing Games ● Videos (YouTube!)
- 7. What distractions do we face? ● External – Meetings – Email – Phone – Coworkers – Bosses – Task Switching ● Internal – FOMO – Self Inflicted – Mental Blocks – Impostor Syndrome
- 8. So, how do we combat them? ● External – Put the phone on DND – Set aside a block of time specifically for follow-ups via phone, email, text, etc. – Schedule meetings early or late. – Adjust your own schedule to overlap with “business hours” – Project Switching ● Manage your time by devoting larger chunks of time to each project. – 2 Projects? ½ day each or every other day. – 3 or more? Split days in half and swap days.
- 9. Tips to combat downtime (2) ● Internal – FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) ● Block site ● Close tabs – Mental Blocks ● Improvise ● Take a break/walk ● Catch up on FOMO ● Reach out to the community for help. – Impostor Syndrome ● Pep Talks ● Mentors ● Community
- 10. FIND A “SECRET” WORK ZONE!
- 11. But I work remotely!
- 13. ✔Why are distractions bad?Why are distractions bad? ✔What can I do about it?What can I do about it?
- 14. Additional Resources Distractions: Jason Fried's TED talk “Why Work Doesn't happen At Work”: http://j.mp/12ED7C1 Codecraft post about Interruptions: http://j.mp/13zIuop Coding Horror post on Multi-Tasking: http://j.mp/10IG8za Impostor Syndrome: The blog article this talk was based upon (mine): http://j.mp/NNhX0d Laura Thomson’s blog post on Impostor Syndrome: http://j.mp/1gFPl4E Wikipedia article on Impostor Syndrome: http://j.mp/1d0UVO4 Mentors can be a big help too: http://j.mp/1d0V3x4
- 15. About Me: ● Sean Prunka – Sr. PHP Engineer for Manalto – 15+ yrs of PHP experience – ZCE PHP 5.3 ● Twitter: @sprunka ● Email – sprunka@gmail.com – sean.prunka@manalto.com
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- Don&apos;t forget to arrange a distraction or two...
- Time Management! Distractions are costly to productivity and efficiency. Unless you are The Doctor with a TARDIS...
- Or, maybe Hermione Granger with her Time Turner... I&apos;m going to assume that none of you are either and you&apos;d like help with Time Management (avoiding distractions) to stay at peak productivity.
- So, with this talk, I hope to help you answer these questions.
- We&apos;re most productive when we&apos;re “in the zone”. But, it takes ramp up time to get there. Let&apos;s say you get interrupted early in your ramp up time. You get knocked back out of the ramp and have to start it over. (Red) Light Blue and Yellow start at the same time, about mid way through ramp up. Yellow is a short and lt blue is long. Darker Blue represents an interruption after you&apos;ve already hit the zone. It&apos;s almost impossible to get back into the zone.
- Pause to get distraction thoughts from audience. This slide is just for ideas and (though should not be) can be just read verbatim, with anecdotes. This is a good time to get a phone call … YouTubed to the weird zone...
- Describe switch from Avoidable/Un-avoidable to Internal/External.
- Don&apos;t answer your phone. Block out downtime. Fix meetings schedules. Make meetings shorter. Overlap your schedule. Work from home/co-work environment. Project/Task switching.
- I hate it when “The MAN” blocks sites, we&apos;re all adults, but if FOMO is getting the best of you. Edit /etc/hosts! Close your tabs! What about those times when you just can&apos;t get in the zone and you&apos;re stuck w/ a mental block? Well, that&apos;s when you allow all those other distractions to have their turns. We&apos;ll talk a little more on IS in a minute or two, but for now, co-worker/boss pep talks; a mentor (HUGE shout out to mine, Elizabeth Narramore, and my unofficial methor, Jeremey Kendall;) and, of course, lean on your fellow community members.
- Ok, so after dealing with that distractio that we all know as Impostor Syndrome, BACK to dealing with and mitigating distractions. This was the best thing I found for me when I worked in a cube farm. (describe Battelle&apos;s env. Describe the Zone cube.) Etc..lead up to next slide remote working...
- Working in an office does have the benefit of peer pressure to help keep you focused, and I&apos;ve noticed that I am much more likely to waste more time on FOMO working from home than I used to at the office. Sure, the office had many more external distractions than working at home, but I became my own biggest distraction. SO, how did I fix it? Co-working spots and keeping a separate laptop for ONLY work stuff. I&apos;ve noticed that I am generally more productive in 6 hrs at my co-working spot (a friend&apos;s house) than I am in 16 hrs actually at home. (unless I work at night after everyone is in bed. Then it&apos;s about the same.)
- Now that you&apos;ve learned something about how to avoid distractions, and how to mitigate those few unavoidable distractions, please remember to try to avoid being a distraction yourself. For those of working remotely, if your co-workers haven&apos;t seen this talk, and don&apos;t know to DnD their phones...don&apos;t call them, just in case they have their headphones on.
- Hopefully that covers enough to get you thinking about how you can take these concepts apply them to your own work environment..
- I&apos;ll post these slides on slideshare probably tomorrow and post the link to the meetup up page, and on the Twitterz, so to follow me...*advance*
- So, this is me if you need to or want to reach out to me. So, questions? Discussions? Drinks?