{"id":246,"date":"2005-11-17T03:37:18","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T11:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changethewayyouwork.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2005-11-17T03:37:18","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T11:37:18","slug":"tracking-and-allocating-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Tracking and allocating time"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<p>I&#8217;m going to try a new technique this week to see where my time goes. <\/p>\n\t<p>I&#8217;m going to keep a log of everything that I do to see where my time goes. This is a common technique employed and suggested by many people as a way to see where you are spending your time. <\/p>\n\t<p>However, rather than doing this in isolation, I&#8217;m going to combine the tracking of what I do with an attempt to pre-allocate what I <em>expect<\/em> to spend my time doing. For example, I know what projects I have outstanding and when they need to be completed. I also have some meetings booked in next week. I&#8217;m going to combine what I know I&#8217;ll be doing (meetings) with what I should be doing (projects) and then allocate the time accordingly. <\/p>\n\t<p>At the end of the two weeks, I&#8217;m going to compare the two - planned and actual. I should be able to determine:<\/p>\n\t<ul>\n\t<li>What I spent my time doing.<\/li>\n\t<li>Whether my estimations on the time required to complete a project matched the actual. This will help me plan future weeks.<\/li>\n\t<li>Identify weaknesses and potential interruptions.<\/li>\n\t<li>Identify why and when I&#8217;m most likely to get sidetracked.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\t<p>I&#8217;ll report back on my progress. Meanwhile, if anybody wants to perform the same task - planning and recording - and discuss their experiences, please leave them here <img src='http:\/\/www.changethewayyouwork.com\/wp-images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\tI&#8217;m going to try a new technique this week to see where my time goes.<br \/>\n\tI&#8217;m going to keep a log of everything that I do to see where my time goes. This is a common technique employed and suggested by many people as a way to see where you are spending your time.<br \/>\n\tHowever, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}