New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Workers

Re:New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Wor... by fjsolwmv on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @08:08AM (#18761954)

1. If you are replaning (?) every day, maybe your project is in chaos and needs some real planning so people can make consistent progress without changing direction every day?

4. Everyone is forced to kill time or disrut schedule so that they can start the day at one privileged time.

5. Aren't you slowing down by waiting for a meeting to get the info? Everyone has to prepare for the meeting in advance, so waiting for the meeting is delay.

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Re:New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Wor... by cc81 on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @09:37AM (#18762318)

I assume he is not talking about changing direction so much as:

- "This implementation of the API was trickier than expected, so it will take a couple of days more I think".

- "Ok, maybe I can help you with it instead of starting with the front end then?"

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Re:New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Wor... by matfil on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @11:03AM (#18762765)

I thought the software world had generally agreed that adding extra people to something that’s running late is rarely the right answer.

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Re:New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Wor... by cc81 on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @12:32PM (#18763314)

That is when you are running late on a project and adding new people. Someone that is already up to speed in the project does not have that limitation.

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Re:New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Wor... by watwut on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @02:01PM (#18763955)

Adding new person to project and team member knowledgeable about project helping somebody else with a task are two very different things.

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Re:New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Wor... by jahaja on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @10:28AM (#18762558)

If the only way to do this sort of communication is to force it out through a stand-up surely something is very wrong?

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