Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & flow

De: Dominica Degrandis

Narrado por: Erin Bennett

If someone stole your wallet, you'd notice it. So why don't people notice when they are robbed of something much more valuable than their wallet - time?

Today's workers are drowning: nonstop requests for time, days filled to the brim with meetings, and endless nights spent heroically fixing the latest problems. This churn and burn is creating a workforce constantly on the edge of burnout.

In this timely book, IT time management expert Dominica DeGrandis reveals the real crime of the century - time theft, one of the most costly factors impacting enterprises in their day-to-day operations.

Through simple solutions that make work visible, DeGrandis helps people round up the five thieves of time and take back their lives with time-saving solutions. Chock-full of exercises, takeaways, real-world examples, and an easy-going writing style, readers will quickly learn effective practices to create high-performing workflows within an organization.

The technology world - and indeed the whole business world - is moving at a pace faster than ever before, and it shows no signs of slowing down. Instead of consigning ourselves to the pressure cooker of the modern world, it's time to elevate how we work. It's time to level up our game. It's time to make work visible.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2017 Dominica DeGrandis (P)2017 Dominica DeGrandis

Great for new IT professionals

Tons of tips for new IT corporate professionals and new grads, or even college students. Lots to think about from the business development side of systems development

Fantastic read!! This book is really eye opening!

I've already started implementing these practices with great success! Despite some belly-aching, my team is reaping the benefits. Wonderful read!!

Helpful but..

this book is helpful if you are new to this approach. if you have read or listened to another book on this topic you have read this book.

great, but

this is a great book with applicable concepts, BUT, now I need to get the hard copy, because to here are too many visual references. still recommend though

Six Stars

Loved this book, my only criticism is I wish it didn’t have as much of a tech or development focus, since I’m in a Different industry. But overall superb.

Real practices to solve common business problems

This book provides clarity on how to identify and solve some of the most common problems in getting teams to be more productive and deliver more business value.

basically good... but many conflicting concepts.

There are some solid nuggets, but often there are conflicting concepts. i.e. sometimes project management is good, other times it is the core problem of getting a project completed... projects should not be undertaken, only work through product managers.

Some reconciliation of what are good concepts and bad needs to occur.

Great for teams transitioning to Agile

great for teams transitioning to agile or for teams needing a refresher. I'm going to share this with my teams!

Bringing the benefits of Agile to Operations

I'm a strong believer of the Agile method in software development. But when faced with managing a devops operational group I noticed the struggle of forcing agile into the operational model of continuous small changes to the system and operations. This book helped me transform the agile Sprint methodology into a high-performing Kanban team. It has already helped a lot, and I plan to really listen to it again to incrementally improve what I've already started.Oone of the most useful books I've listened to this year.

good reader. ok book

it felt like it was missing something. worth the buy all things considered. the narrator was easy to understand and pleasant to listen to.