Meeting in Workplace

Wasting someone’s time is the subtlest form of murder. – Lindy West As a professional in workspace, we’ve all been participant in different kinds of meetings, 1 on 1s, agile ceremonies, design reviews etc. It’s fair to say that most of our professional time in our career is occupied by meetings. If a meeting has 12 attendances and there are 5 minutes been wasted with off-topic discussion, we are simply talking about one hour of productivity loss....

October 12, 2022 · 6 min · 1223 words · Eric

Technical Project Workload Estimation

Estimation technical project is always one of the the hardest thing in Project Management . There are so many moving factors that can easily affect the quality of Estimation, especially under certain conditions like time constrains and resource shortage. Contingency One of the good lessons I got is to add contingency into the estimation regardless. If we deliver things earlier than the deadline, that’s a good surprise. Otherwise, we still get enough buffer to get things done and deliver....

September 4, 2022 · 1 min · 165 words · Eric

Pick the Low-Hanging Fruits First  [draft]

Reference LegalVision: Understanding the Low-Hanging Fruit Principle in Business

September 2, 2022 · 1 min · 9 words · Eric

Effective Retrospective  [draft]

Reference How to do effective retrospective

January 19, 2021 · 1 min · 6 words · Eric

Navigate Through Ambiguity

General Steps to Navigate Through Ambiguity Step 1 - Understand the Expectation What is your goal? What will success look like? Is this goal measurable? Step 2 - Describe & Evaluate Current Situation Step 3 - Categorise Goals with Cynefin Framework Simple Complex Complicated Chaos Step 4 - Work backward Apply the MECE Framework Mutually Exclusive Collectively Exhaustive In general, the starting point for MECE is hard to determine. What you can do is to use following methods and try to find the starting point, e....

June 11, 2020 · 1 min · 183 words · Eric