Dear fat friends,
See words such as face!
Unconsciously, I was halfway through the 12 letters. Before, I always felt busy and had no time, so I tried to write some words intermittently, but I was always interrupted by this and that, and finally I did not stick to it.
I feel different this time. Although I am tired from working every week, I still have a desire to write and finish these 12 letters, even if I cry! Want to! Write! Finished!
Maybe this time is also a special period for me. After working for several years, I have some experience, which gives me the intention to write and share with everyone. Of course, it is another kind of growth for myself. For example, when writing, I also think about how much I have done and how much more I can do in terms of each product manager’s ability. It was also a kind of torture and spur for me.
Plus I always have the habit of reading, always feel filled with a lot of knowledge and words to the stomach, brain, sometimes some panic, dyspepsia, so this is also a good way to exercise the brain.
Set the tone for this time of 12 letter is to give the product manager of 0 to 3 years old friends to share experiences, therefore, sometimes not repetitive, but every word here is small fat on their own, higher order will continue after the 12 letter, so some friends don’t try so hard, the first bread will have, love also will!
Support, of course, they can continue to write down another big reason is that, after finished the many friends pay attention to the small fat each social accounts, also received a lot of friends leave a message, for all cared about the friend of small fat, small fat want to say, you leave, I will not abandon, product road go bad, together we make a date!
Mua ~
The sixth letter little fat is going to talk about “time management” this old difficult problem.
There used to be a joke: someone asked a pretty girl, why do you like to find a programmer as a husband? Being rich, busy (too busy to spend money), dying young (too busy to spend money). IT’s just a joke, of course, but here’s a serious problem: people in the IT industry work a lot of overtime, and they don’t have enough time.
This is an industry problem, a problem for all IT practitioners, and a problem for every product dog.
Why is there not enough time? Why do I have to work overtime so often? Maybe the temporary enthusiasm will keep you from caring, but what happens when the enthusiasm wears off?
Learn to manage time, in order to find the focus of work, in order to better work, in order to better contribute to the results, in order to last.
So what do you do?
Let’s start with a few questions:
[X] Do you feel guilty if you don’t finish the work you want to finish? [x] Do you have a lot of unimportant, unaddressed emails? [X] You often feel like you have a lot to do, but do you do it inefficiently? [X] You really want to spend more time with your family, but you just don’t have the time. [X] You can’t concentrate on your work and are often interrupted when you are doing something.
1. Know why: The why and purpose of time management
What would you do if you were given three days to see?
Go see a sunset, go somewhere you’ve never been afraid to go, or spend a quiet evening lying at home with the people next to you.
If we list the things that are important to us, we find that there aren’t many things that really need our time. But why do we always feel that we are busy, have endless work, endless needs? It may be that we think we are too important.
In fact, we are not as important as we think, the world will go on without you or me, that’s all.
So, the reason why we have to learn to manage our time is that we have to learn to spend our precious time on the important things, not everything.
Here’s an example:
I remember when Xiao Pang just started working, there was a period of time when a person connected with seven or eight colleagues in operation at the same time, and the daily needs were really endless. Because each operation at the same time told the small fat, their needs more urgent more urgent, but, really? Later after a period of time, there is an old seniority product manager told xiao Pang a method, is to put a day, if you do not do their needs, they will how? The result is very simple, the colleague of operation still can continue to look for small fat, this time ask method became: “probably when can line? “So, this small case just shows us that when we are doing demand, it is most important to prioritize, not to take all at once.
2. How to do: PDCA closed loop for time management
All management is closed loop, and time management is even more so.
Time management is divided into five processes: collection – processing – organization – review – implementation.
# # to collect
This basically means to collect all the tasks you’ve been assigned at work, as well as all the other things you normally do, so that you know what’s going on around you.
## processing refers to classifying the tasks collected in the previous step into two categories of “executable” and “unexecutable” according to the principle of processing one thing at a time and item by item.
## Organizing means putting things that are labeled into a corresponding “list.”
A review is a review of past work and lists and a reprioritization.
Implementation is doing, implementing.
We may find it too theoretical or useless to only talk about principles, so I’ll give you another example:
Since people are most prone to panic and confusion in unknown situations, one of the important benefits of PDCA time management is to make everything visible, so that they know what to do, so that they will not panic. Second, talk about the use of lists. Lists are worth retelling. First of all, lists help us keep track of things. A good memory is worse than a bad pen. Secondly, the list is about task decomposition, so that on the one hand, you can achieve the goal step by step, on the other hand, you can get a certain sense of achievement in advance.
3. What tools and books are recommended
(1) Time management and efficiency tools:
Keep track of time: Your phone or computer comes with a calendar
Make plans: Tick lists, Fantastical 2, TODO, Fantastic lists, Morning calendars, Things3
Improved focus: Tidal (IOS), Tomato Alarm clock, Forest, Tomato Potato
Summary and recheck: Evernote, Weizhi Note, Youdao Cloud Note
Improve sleep: snail sleep
Project management: OmniPlan, Project
(2) Recommended Books:
The OKR Work Method, The Checklist Revolution, the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, the McKinsey Series