Re:Everything I wish someone had told me (about freelancing)
by adrianhoward on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @04:05PM
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One productivity hack that I've used a few times is to flip it around. Rather than track work time - I track non-work time.
I set aside 20 hours (or whatever) of coding time for a project during the week - and then track all the things that stop me doing that and subtract it from the total.
By focusing on tracking the interruptions rather than the work - the impact of poor multi-tasking/poor-scheduling becomes much more obvious.
[Edit: And in case it wasn't obvious - the time is tracked for me, not the client]
I set aside 20 hours (or whatever) of coding time for a project during the week - and then track all the things that stop me doing that and subtract it from the total.
By focusing on tracking the interruptions rather than the work - the impact of poor multi-tasking/poor-scheduling becomes much more obvious.
[Edit: And in case it wasn't obvious - the time is tracked for me, not the client]