About Dan Markovitz
Dan Markovitz is the founder and president of TimeBack Management. Prior to founding his own firm, Mr. Markovitz held management positions at Sierra Designs, Adidas, CNET and Asics Tiger. Learn More...
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Leveling; smoothing out the flow; e.g., doing two performance evaluations a day for 3 weeks, rather than ten a day for three days -- and then needing to take a vacation because you're so burned out.
Overburdening people, process, or equipment; e.g., people working 100 hour weeks for months on end -- come to think of it, like most lawyers and accountants.
Uneveness or variability; e.g., leaving work at the normal time on Thursday, but having to stay at the office till midnight on Friday because the boss finally got around to giving you that project...at 4:30pm.
Waste; activities that your customer doesn't value and doesn't want to pay for; e.g., billing your customer for the really expensive 10am FedEx delivery because you didn't finish the document on time.
Why a to-do list just doesn’t work
I found Womack article perfect.
I totally agree with his point of view.
I found your website because I was desperately looking for a piece of software that helps me in "putting tasks in the calendar".
It is not a problem of "views" (as Microsoft thinks). It's a completely different approach. The only thing (I mean "THING") that goes in that direction is MSProject but it is like using a bulldozer to go shopping.
We need a stuff where you can write the main task (the final one usually) and then it asks you to draw the "chain of event" to get there and the time required for each step. Third: it goes to the calendar and "automatically" book some space in the agenda for these steps to be done.
Simple, isnt'it? But....where is it????