I used to say to myself, "If I could write code as fast as Mr. X, that would be amazing!" Then I took over Mr. X's project, and realized how many hard problems he solved badly, if he even got around to solving them at all.
I do like to eat the frog for sure. It just removes uncertainties from the project, and you at least have a possibility of being accurate when asked when the project will be complete.
One thing I've started doing with that hour before the morning standup is to tackle a simple problem that has no dependency on any of the the hard problems. I feel like I accomplished something, and that I won't have to interrupt a train of thought when Outlook starts peppering me with notifications that the standup is about to start.
Nice! I do something similar - I add a "shallow", "medium" or "deep" tag to all of my todos, and I'll knock out the shallow ones in between meetings, or at times when I know I'm not going to be able to focus deeply.
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I used to say to myself, "If I could write code as fast as Mr. X, that would be amazing!" Then I took over Mr. X's project, and realized how many hard problems he solved badly, if he even got around to solving them at all.
I do like to eat the frog for sure. It just removes uncertainties from the project, and you at least have a possibility of being accurate when asked when the project will be complete.
One thing I've started doing with that hour before the morning standup is to tackle a simple problem that has no dependency on any of the the hard problems. I feel like I accomplished something, and that I won't have to interrupt a train of thought when Outlook starts peppering me with notifications that the standup is about to start.
Nice! I do something similar - I add a "shallow", "medium" or "deep" tag to all of my todos, and I'll knock out the shallow ones in between meetings, or at times when I know I'm not going to be able to focus deeply.