Little Tips That Make a Big Impact

DATE 2016/01/30
COURSE 3.1 How Long Will This Take?

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OUTLINES

• The best estimates come from experience.
• This means it really pays for you to keep a log of the work you do. And how long it takes you to complete this work, next time you do something similar you won't have to guess how long it's gonna take.
• So maybe create quarterly analysis report description what do you have to do, gather the month end reports for the quarter, extract the data, upload it to the database, that type of thing.
• Now what you wanna gather is the reason for the variance.
• When you do this, this is called analogous estimating.
• this report is based on one month of data instead of three months.

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WORDS

variance

• an amount of difference or change

archival

• of, relating to, contained in, suitable for, or constituting archives
  retrieval
• the act or process of getting and bringing back something : the act or process of retrieving something
  repetitive
• happening again and again : repeated many times
  validate
• to make legally valid
  parametric
• a rule or limit that controls what something is or how something should be done

COURSE 3.2 Managing Communications

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OUTLINES

• communications
  • take time
  • improve your effectiveness and productivity
  • If you can,
  • try not to look at your emails or your texts every time a new one arrives. Try to set up a specific time, or times, to handle these communications each day during your work.
  • So his first thing is,delete it or file it.
  • We have clearly marked folders, like for actions versus pending versus information.
  • And the other category is, Do it.
  • Another area, action.
  • Waiting or pending, this is another category.
    • If there's a item that doesn't require you to take action, but you're waiting for someone or something,put it in a special folder.
• And again, if there's an element of timeliness for this, put a follow-up reminder, probably on your calendar, or in your work plan, so that it doesn't get overlooked.
• Keep similar data together. Make it easy to read and understand.
• Keep your contact information in one easy to find and access location too.

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WORDS

stack up

• to add up