Does your flow vary by time of year significantly? How do orgs' fiscal calendars affect your work? Winter holidays, summer vacations?
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Does your flow vary by time of year significantly? How do orgs' fiscal calendars affect your work? Winter holidays, summer vacations?
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For me, I don’t think I can ever turn it off. Thank goodness for the Notes app on my phone! I’ll be doing some activity and suddenly an idea will come to mind about how I could have written that function better.
what app do you use if it's not a secret? like some default app?
i need to step up the note keeping thing, currently its a total mess :)
I already have too many apps so I use the default iPhone one.
I don’t know about seasonal in the calendar sense. But external client work comes in waves and drives a little more crazier process since we are stuck to timelines in contracts someone else promises.
We have a pretty big dead spot around the end of the year due to holidays. Less business folks means less demand.
The first quarter is typically rough. Start of the new year means start of new contracts. And making up time due to holidays apparently.
I've worked in companies where it seems the financial year is driven entirely by one word.
Underspend.
Government departments sometimes receive a budget that - if they fail to spend it - means that they cannot carry-over the remainder into the next year and might even have their next year's budget reduced.
In February and March, therefore, there's a sudden surge of government spending with almost embarrassingly short negotiation cycles, as budget controllers desperately try to spend their money. Got a project with a convincing-sounding title? Underspend is waiting for you.
Then as the tax year ticks over at the beginning of April, there's a collective sigh of relief, and much talk of tender applications, followed by lengthy quiet periods across the summer while the entire government seems to disappear on holiday, then a burst of activity around the autumn, a break over Christmas and then an empty pit forms on the stomachs of budget controllers as they suddenly realise that all that careful management has left with, once again, with underspend.