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Why I love Getting Things Done on Index Cards
R. Emory Lundberg | Apr 20 2006
This just happened today. We had a big staff meeting. My regular job duties are managing several intrusion-detection systems and architectures. All of the people in my Engineering team do this and we all have various offerings. I was primary on one, and a peer was the secondary. I got yanked off that product and put on others that needed me and instead of having a long drawn-out meeting on what I was currently working on for that product, do you know what I did? I pulled those project cards associated with that offering and flicked them across the table the New Guy. Absolved. Migrated. That guy now has several cards that he can follow and merely resume my work. No brain dump, no strategy meeting, just a list of individual tasks for each project related to that platform. Someone asked, "What are you doing?" and all I could say was, "I just transitioned that product to Dave". Its good here in the land of 3x5. 9 Comments
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 Do you (or does anybody)...Submitted by Berko on April 21, 2006 - 7:30am.
pooks wrote: Do you (or does anybody) have to have a paper trail or record of stuff they've done? I keep a black 3X5 box for filing my used cards. I even file my capture cards when they are full. Emory's practice of taking pictures would be a good one as well, but it's not machine readable so you have to associate tags with the photo. In the long run, that might be better than paper filing. » POSTED IN:
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