Silicon Valley’s Productivity Secret
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Silicon Valley’s Productivity Secret
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Re: Silicon Valley’s Productivity Secret
#2A missing ingredient here is that the snippet/update/whatever system needs to be policed by the CEO as the ONLY way such data can be collected. It doesn't work if eight levels of managers across three teams each decide they want the same "just five minutes per week!" updates in 16 different formats in constantly shifting docs/apps/styles.
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#3Reflection on work is an important step in getting work done efficiently, and this process forces it quite well. On top of that, it requires little action on the part of the managers.
Well done, people, well done.
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#4I just read this and realized I've been misusing snippets for the eighteen months I've been at Google. There's a lesson there..
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#5I really like this idea. Does anyone know of a project that implements this? I did an initial search but nothing turned up but it'd probably be easy to miss it. In a way it reminds me of Rands' trickle concept of keeping track of work done so that one's status/log is easily generated. It'd be pretty easy to link this into other sources to add details automagically as well(e.g. GitHub check-ins come to mind).
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#6I've done this at every startup I've worked at, including the ones I co-founded! Didn't realize it was a novelty.
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#7I just read this and realized I've been misusing snippets for the eighteen months I've been at Google. There's a lesson there..
What have you been using them for then...
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#8I always kind of assumed that most developers who work at these Google-level places automatically reflect without a specific process to force it, but maybe I'm just projecting.
Personally, I have a hard time stopping myself from reflecting on the code I've just written and the code I'm currently planning to the point where it is almost a social problem. (eg. my girlfriend will be telling me about her day and in the back of my head my brain is rewriting some code I actually wrote in an editor earlier to be simpler and more efficient... great for my productivity, bad for my relationships).
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#9I really like this idea. Does anyone know of a project that implements this? I did an initial search but nothing turned up but it'd probably be easy to miss it. In a way it reminds me of Rands' trickle concept of keeping track of work done so that one's status/log is easily generated. It'd be pretty easy to link this into other sources to add details automagically as well(e.g. GitHub check-ins come to mind).
Hey, actually you can try our implementation at http://iDoneThis.com (author of the post here). We have a team thing we're rolling out and this post was in part to gauge interest.
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#10I just read this and realized I've been misusing snippets for the eighteen months I've been at Google. There's a lesson there..
What have you been using them for then...
I've been saying what I did rather than reflecting on what is important and what to do next.
Doesn't matter because I don't think anybody's been reading them either. Most of my team doesn't use them at all.