ಒಂದು ವರ್ಷದ ಹಿಂದೆ, I joined ಸ್ಲಾಲಮ್ ಕನ್ಸಲ್ಟಿಂಗ್ here in new York as what we call a Practice Area Lead. (ಈ ಬ್ಲಾಗ್ ಪೋಸ್ಟ್ ಹಂತದವರೆಗೆ ಪಕ್ಕಕ್ಕೆ ಒಂದು ಸಣ್ಣ ಮಾಹಿತಿ, ಬ್ಲಾಗಿಂಗ್ ರಲ್ಲಿ ಡ್ರಾಪ್ ಆಫ್ ನನ್ನ ಒಟ್ಟು ಉದ್ಯೋಗಗಳು ಖಾತೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಬದಲಾವಣೆ. It was a big change in roles and a big change in day to day “stuff” but I’ve sort of acclimated myself to it and look forward to writing again ).
In this PAL role, I’m responsible to save the company and the immediate environs of 21 West 21st street from disaster on a regular basis. It’s a lot of pressure (more than you might think – just think of all the children!).
In service to that imperative, I need to help out with pre-sales, create and update go-to-market offerings, hire good folks, train up folks to make them better (but really, to make my job easier) and occasionally do something billable at a client. ನಾನು "ಇನ್ಪುಟ್" ಬಹಳಷ್ಟು ಪಡೆಯಲು - ಗ್ರಾಹಕರ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗಳಿಗೆ, ಮಾರಾಟ ಅವಕಾಶಗಳನ್ನು, ನನ್ನ ಶಾಲೆ addled ಆಲೋಚನೆಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ. ಇದು ಕೆಲವು ನಿಜವಾಗಿಯೂ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದು (ಒಂದು ಬಿಸಿ ಮಾರಾಟ oppty ಹಾಗೆ) ಇದು ಬಹಳಷ್ಟು ಕಡಿಮೆ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದು ಮಾಡುವಾಗ. ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಆರಂಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಟ್ರ್ಯಾಕ್ ಮಾಡುವುದು, ಈ ಪರಿಕಲ್ಪನೆಗಳ ಪ್ರತಿ ಆದ್ಯತೆಯನ್ನು ಮತ್ತು ನಿರ್ವಹಿಸಿ (ದೊಡ್ಡ ಮತ್ತು ಸಣ್ಣ) ಯಶಸ್ವಿ ತೀರ್ಮಾನಕ್ಕೆ.
ಕಾರ್ಯ ನಿರ್ವಹಣೆಯ ಈ ರೀತಿಯ ಹೊಸ ಅಲ್ಲ, ಬಲ? ಮತ್ತು ಈ ನಮಗೆ ಸಹಾಯ ಕೆಲಸವನ್ನು ಉಪಕರಣಗಳು ಲಾಟ್ಸ್ ಆಫ್ ಹೊಂದಿದೆ. ಮೇಲ್ನೋಟ ಕಾರ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಹೊಂದಿದೆ. ನೀವು ಒಟ್ಟಿಗೆ ಸಂತೋಷವನ್ನು ಮತ್ತು ತ್ವರಿತ ಸ್ಪ್ರೆಡ್ಶೀಟ್ ಬಡಿ ಮಾಡಬಹುದು. ನನ್ನ ಮೊದಲ ಕಾರ್ಯ ನಿರ್ವಹಣಾ ಉಪಕರಣವನ್ನು ಐಟಿ ವಿಭಾಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ಡೆವಲಪರ್ ಮಾಹಿತಿ GAF ನನ್ನ ದಿನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ಕಾನೂನು ನೋಟ್ಪಾಡ್ ಮತ್ತೆ. (ನೀವು ನೀವು ಆಸಕ್ತಿ ವೇಳೆ ಆ ಉತ್ತಮ ಹಳೆಯ ದಿನಗಳ ನೀವು ನನ್ನನ್ನು ನೋಡಿ ಮುಂದಿನ ಬಾರಿ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಕೇಳಿ, ಅಥವಾ ಬಹುಶಃ ಅಲ್ಲ...).
ಒಂದು ಶೇರ್ಪಾಯಿಂಟ್ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ ಬೀಯಿಂಗ್ (ಹೆಸರಿನಿಂದ, ಕನಿಷ್ಠ), ನಾನು ಯಾವಾಗಲೂ ಶೇರ್ಪಾಯಿಂಟ್ ಬಳಸಲು ಚಿಂತಿಸಿದೆ. But for some reason, a generic Task list never quite did it for me. A bunch of months ago, I decided to heal myself and just create a SharePoint based solution. It was so embarrassingly easy to create that I thought to write about it here.
ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ, my goals here were very simple:
- Super easy and fast data entry
- Prioritize activities
- Categorize activities
- “next step” driven – these activities will often span weeks (maybe even months). They almost never “end” after one specific update.
These bits lend themselves very nicely to a content type, so that’s what I created:
You can actually see that I had a sales bias with this at first, since I have that “Client” field. A lot of my practice’s activities are based around clients (either actual or prospective). But many of them are also internally focused. I slap “Slalom” in there when I create them, but it always feels a tad weird. I should have named it something more generic. Maybe “Target Organization” or something.
Here are a few miscellaneous notes on the content type:
- Activity Impact has devolved into a measurement of priority. I’m not sure why I went with “Impact” and not “Priority” day zero, but that’s what I did.
- Next Steps and Next Steps Date – I have a dashboard that is driven by the next activity date. This dashboard has sort of become my marching orders for the day/week. I just go to the dashboard and focus on high priority stuff first and go from there. (There’s the notion of an “untagged”
- Primary Owner – the only thing of note is – isn’t it awesome that you can sort and filter on multi-select columns in SP 2010! I actually didn’t fully buy into this notion at first.
- Activity Status – really just “Open” or “Closed.”
- Primary Practice – After I began using this, another PAL in my group wanted to try this out, so I slipped this into the mix to distinguish between my stuff (Portals & ಸಹಯೋಗ) and her stuff (ಆಕಾಶ ನೀಲಿ).
Here’s my dashboard:
(sorry for all the blurred out bits – I didn’t feel like creating a bunch of test data and I don’t want to give anyone a heart attack over sharing vital details [see the bit in the intro re: save the world, ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ, ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ, ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ]).
I have several other views on this list, including a datasheet view that allows me to do mass updates. I do this most often when a bunch of lower priority items I planned to do a never quite got done and need to be pushed out a week.
ಪ್ರತಿದಿನ, I pull up my activities log and just start working off the top of the list.
In part 2, ನಾನು ಒಂದು ಉತ್ತಮ ಇಮೇಲ್ ಶಕ್ತಗೊಂಡ ಡಾಕ್ ಗ್ರಂಥಾಲಯದ ಎಸ್ಪಿಡಿ ಕೆಲಸದೊತ್ತಡದ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಈ ಇನ್ನಷ್ಟು ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸಲು ಹೇಗೆ ವಿವರಿಸಲು ಮಾಡುತ್ತೇವೆ.
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ನಲ್ಲಿ ಟ್ವಿಟ್ಟರ್ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಅನುಸರಿಸಿ http://www.twitter.com/pagalvin
Good points all. I would suggest a ‘matter’ sub type to go along with client as is common practice in the legal vertical.
Expanding, org (ಸ್ಕೀ ಪಂದ್ಯ) expertise might prove valuable as it can speed up RFP and SOW artifacts. While you may know the skillsets of staff in your office, you may be well servee knowing that of those residing elsewhere.
No part 2 ? 🙂
ತೋಡಿಕೋ, I never got to it :).