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- dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -5/+63Bookmarked and dugg. I look forward to reading this.
- Switch22, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34You've taken all the jokes every other digger came here to post... :(
- doddilus, on 10/12/2007, -12/+36meh... i'll read it later
- macguy815, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Does the phrase "it was only funny the first time" mean anything to you?
- diggstown, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7WARNING: The article is worthless!
Are people digging it just because they hope that the article will help them solve their procrastination problem? Or is it because it's funny to make procrastination jokes about an article that supposedly helps you fix your procrastinating? For damn sure, it ain't getting dugg because of the contents of that article. - haqattaq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Sounds like getting his frustration down on paper is part of his self-improvement process. I can relate.
- Shadez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3kinda ironic its on the front page of digg
- decodv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Another great resource for how one thinks about software development is "Lean Software Development."
http://www.google.com/search?q=Lean+software+development
Lean Software Development takes the concepts behind the development of Toyota and Honda vehicles and applies it to software. A lot of the principles feel like common sense once you read/hear them, but nonetheless, they're true and if applied, extremely helpful in becoming the most efficient developer you can be. - JPresEFnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have to agree, I can't imagine the situation where 'an hour a week' is spending too much time to keep everyone on the same page.
- Zbug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here's what I just did, take the discovery procrastination quiz and write down notes as you go along, figure solutions from them and then listen to an write down what they say at the end and post it somewhere you work to constantly remind yourself of the tips. Write this on your arm or something if you really want to accomplish it.
- PragmaticSense, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3What are you guys talking about? Oh, you must have read the article. Don't you know there is no need to do that. Just digg it. I myself, like to recommend movies I haven't seen based solely on the title.
- mbabauer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Anyone who works in a REAL development environment where outages are calculated in "millions of dollars per minute" knows this is complete and utter BS. As my collage professor always said, plan for the worst, hope for the best. One hour a week just wont cut it. We spend more than an hour a week just going through the bug reports on a single project.
- balloot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3This article's "improvements" are just as dumb as having too many meetings. If you cut your meeting time to an hour a week, you will find yourself losing more time to poor communication/synchronization of your team than you would have lost by just planning a meeting. Of course there is obviously a point where additional meetings don't add enough value to justify their time, but that point comes well after 1 hour/week for most jobs.
- Dustin00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thus, the SCRUM/Sprint was invented. Keep up, people.
- duke, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Haste makes waste.
- stoppedcode12, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2lol, what a coincidence I just got a newsletter about procrastination from my university.
http://webapps2.ucalgary.ca/~steel//Procrastinus/funsites.php check out "Procrastination Tests" - jzl007, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Another good site with procrastination tips: http://antiprocrastination.blogspot.com/
- guerrilla_suit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Beat procrastination by not procrastinating.
I wasn't impressed with the mentioned advice. - lateralus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3From the article:
"...It’s something I struggle with. Partly out of fear of failure, partly because I love the idea-generation phase of projects, mostly because I am an anal geek on occasion....."
Dude, too much information. - WoollyMittens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"collage professor"
I think a collage professor makes lots of newspaper clippings. =D - diggmanchu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://www.duggmirror.com
- chaoskaizer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thats a good term
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3I disagree with the premise. I work with a lot of impatient idiots who can't see the future. They just want to charge ahead and do, and if mistakes get make, their plan is to just patch things up after they happen. Well, that approach is a load of bull. Good planning can speed things, not hold them back. But lack of good planning can scuttle the ship. The criterion to use is not, are we spending too much time planning, but 'is our planning good enough?' Does it cover key things? Does it model the situation as needed?
I hate it when I run into limited attention span clueless pointy-haired managers. It's a sure sign life is about to get very, very annoying. - clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I don't think it's accurate to make a blanket statement like the summary does.
There are peoples jobs who it is to plan things and improve things. They brainstorm individually and in groups all the time to make other parts of the work place more efficient.
Hell, even managers are there to manage not do the work. They are there to help the workers do what they need to do to get the job done. A good portion of that is planning on what to do. So while the workers are working, management is planning. Then management gives the new tasks to the worked and work changes to that, uninterrupted. - SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2This article isn't for that type of person. That's the opposite kind of person, the kind who is held back by their lack of planning. Procrastinators are held back because they never take action, they never move past the planning phase. They're the kind of person this article is for.
Neither extreme is any good. The ideal is to strike a balance between planning and prompt action. - lateralus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Bookmarked for now. I'll get to it later.
- devboy00, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Blap. It's dead Jim.
- oddmanout, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5I was going to submit this article but i never really got around to it.
- FTLJohnson, on 10/12/2007, -12/+7I may read it later, but I'm going to discuss it with my coworkers. If the IT dept here generally agrees, we'll run it by the dept manager and see if he can allocate the time nessecary to read this article and if there is enough leeway in the budget to do so.
- mrtorok, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Strange...this guy has replaced the letter "z" in many of his words with the letter "s." Hmmm...
- Minos, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Sensible advice. But nothing that you can't come up with yourself.
- redmaxx, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3@nepawoods
Please, let me know where I can find these rules for when I can and cannot Digg something.
/sarcasm - synnerzero, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0I'll check this out later, too.
- zweben, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Cool, I'll read this right now.
Edit: Useless article. - DeFex, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3the web site was going to display but thought it would get around to it later.
- mrpj, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Hmmm...looks interesting. I'm planning on reading it. Tomorrow. Probably.
- bolapara, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1all good jokes already taken. :-/
- xs650, on 10/12/2007, -11/+0I need to do some analysis to determine the optimum time to read the article.
- nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -27/+3How the ***** can you digg an article when you haven't read it???
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