Re: 40-hour weeks

Subject: Re: 40-hour weeks
From: "Pro TechWriter" <pro -dot- techwriter -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "Richard Lewis" <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 13:04:05 -0400

Good points...see my comments.

On 7/6/07, Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Only about 20% of my time per week is productive - that includes analysis
> (i.e., learning). Where does the rest of the time go? <snip> Soooooo
> much time is wasted in trying to get answers to my questions <snip>...
> There are two main reasons for this:
>
> * Most people spend just about all of their time focused on things that
> are either are non-relevant, or that should not be considered until much
> later in a project. <snip again> ........
> * Some people are very turf conscious...<snip>... This is the way the
> work world works except in some rare, highly-focused efforts -


Richard makes a good point. When I took project manager training, one of the
things that we learned about scheduling was to use 6 hours as "productive"
time per day for workers, not 8. The PMI-certified project manager who
trained us told me, "If you use 8 hours as your base, you will be working 10
hours, because only about 70-80% of that time is productive time." Over a
whole project, this has always proved true for me, and I suspect that the
reasons that Richard gave are a big part of it.

My $.02.

Happy Friday!!
--PT




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References:
RE: 40-hour weeks: From: Kevin McLauchlan
RE: 40-hour weeks: From: Richard Lewis

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