#work entry

Excerpt from; Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh.

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Every October 31st we celebrate Halloween. Over the years instead of just one night, people decorate their houses and celebrate for at least a month – we love a party. In celebration of what has become the seventh-largest retail holiday in the United States, let’s take a spooky look at the outcome of poor work intake and celebrate the fact that we can banish the spooks and shades of poor work…

SPaMCAST 807 looks at the Nine Core Work Intake Principles from the organization’s middle.  Each layer of the organization has an approach to work intake. While the macro outcome is the same for each layer – work is accepted – each has nuances. The simple three-tier view of organization design used in Mastering Work Intake begins with an executive layer followed by middle management and is…

In the first installment of our essay, Saying Yes To All Work, I mentioned that the class exploring the topic identified that “when the CEO tells you to do something, you do it” as a reason for accepting unplanned work. This is a classic and while it is rare, it does happen. Over the years when I have seen (or participated) in the event almost no one pushed back. A few hours after the podcast was…

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 781 begins with a discussion of prioritization and sequencing. These two ideas often get conflated. Work might be important but if it has predecessors and successors it will require sequencing. You can’t deploy a new piece of hardware unless you have it. The acquisition of the equipment comes before deployment. Not letting teams control or have input into…

Prioritization is an integral part of work intake but getting it right is more than just putting work in the proper order. Prioritization and work intake are entwined with leadership. When prioritization involves overly detailed or excessive control over how someone accomplishes their tasks or when it impedes an employee’s ability to make their own decisions it becomes micromanagement. This can…

In SPaMCAST 749, we discuss the attributes of good work input/entry. There is no perfect approach to bringing work into an organization or team. Arguably since people are involved, perfect may not be something that can exist in the real world but instead, there are good approaches. There are nine key concepts for good work entry. Good work entry requires that these nine have to be present in some…

I looked him dead in the eye, opened my phone to the picture I took of where they deposited the snow (literally right up against the corner of my bedroom) and said, “Look brah, I know we have crazy people, but tell me you ain’t gonna feel a bulldozer when it’s that close to your head.”