Paperback, 205 pages
English language
Published Aug. 26, 2017 by IT Revolution Press.
If someone stole your wallet, you'd notice it. So why don't people notice when they are robbed of something much more valuable than their wallet―time?
Today's workers are drowning: nonstop requests for time, days filled to the brim with meetings, and endless nights spent heroically fixing the latest problems. This churn and burn is creating a workforce constantly on the edge of burnout.
In this timely book, IT time management expert Dominica DeGrandis reveals the real crime of the century―time theft, one of the most costly factors impacting enterprises in their day-to-day operations.
Through simple solutions that make work visible, DeGrandis helps people round up the five thieves of time and take back their lives with time-saving solutions. Chock-full of exercises, takeaways, real-world examples, colorful diagrams, and an easy-going writing style, readers will quickly learn effective practices to create high-performing workflows within an organization.
The technology world―and indeed the whole …
If someone stole your wallet, you'd notice it. So why don't people notice when they are robbed of something much more valuable than their wallet―time?
Today's workers are drowning: nonstop requests for time, days filled to the brim with meetings, and endless nights spent heroically fixing the latest problems. This churn and burn is creating a workforce constantly on the edge of burnout.
In this timely book, IT time management expert Dominica DeGrandis reveals the real crime of the century―time theft, one of the most costly factors impacting enterprises in their day-to-day operations.
Through simple solutions that make work visible, DeGrandis helps people round up the five thieves of time and take back their lives with time-saving solutions. Chock-full of exercises, takeaways, real-world examples, colorful diagrams, and an easy-going writing style, readers will quickly learn effective practices to create high-performing workflows within an organization.
The technology world―and indeed the whole business world―is moving at a pace faster than ever before, and it shows no signs of slowing down. Instead of consigning ourselves to the pressure cooker of the modern world, it's time to elevate how we work. It's time to level up our game. It's time to make work visible.
Very readable and practical advice on how to up your game to not only deliver more but not loathe doing it. Good stuff on metrics and other tidbits.
As a security professional, there are a lot of aspects touched on here that I've been trying to bring to security - especially customer-focus and outcome-oriented goals vs. metrics and busy-ness.
If you like "The Phoenix Project", you must read this - and if you didn't read it, you should read it anyway.
This book should be considered a standard reference for practical Kanban and how to manage work.
It is split in to three parts:
Part one explains the five thieves of time
Part two shows how to use Kanban to hunt down these thieves
* Part three is about creating Metrics and getting Feedback
The content is from practitioners for practitioners which makes this book one of the most valuable I've ever read.
The visuals are spot-on and the general style makes reading the book an absolute joy.
