Thursday, August 22, 2002

Innoculation I am flattered by Phil's comments on my blog.  I, like Wade Billings, am struggling to make it a part of my daily routine.  I totally agree with Phil that if blogging could spread throughout the state enterprise, the benefits would increase exponentially.  But, I am somewhat skeptical that it will catch fire any time soon.  I don't know if I could come up with an innoculation for the mind viruses that stand in the way.  I don't have time to chew on that problem, anyway.  I'm not sure any of us do.  More on this later... 10:55:01 AM

Wade Billing's Priorities I like what Wade says here.  In fact, the product management staff has a spreadsheet that does what Wade describes.  I am working on a personal method as well. "How does one who works  in a dynamic and fluid environment keep their priorities and tasks from constantly shifting? Well, I think I may have found the answer that will work for me ( and maybe others can use it as well ). I have created an online "threat board" that I keep track of all of the plates that I am currently spinning, and with a glance, I can look at it and tell what is hot, and what is not. I learned this trick from a coupled of very wise men in a previous life who taught me that if you have a aggregation point for all of the various projects and initiatives that you are working on, and you assign a color code (Green - Good, Yellow - Gap w/recovery plan, Red - Gap wo/recovery plan), then you can easily and quickly assess where your efforts and time are best spent. I am trying out this experiment on myself (as any good researcher would do) and then I will introduce my team to the concept. One by-product of the "threat board" is that the creation of weekly status reports becomes a no brainer as all of the information is already there and it just needs to be reformatted for executive consumption. I previously wrote about my frustrations at not having an enterprise wide road map, well instead of complaining I am going to introduce the "threat board" concept to others within the org and watch it take flight. I will let you all know how it goes in future posts.." [First Post] 10:40:12 AM

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