pat loughery

This succinct set of workday guidelines is a nice blueprint for getting productive on the important stuff and ruthless about cutting the crap. Written on a unknown “major corp” whiteboard pictured here, they read:

QUALITY vs quantity, UX process.

Check email ONLY:

* 10AM

* 1PM

* 4PM

Send any time

Set email to check every 3 hours.

NO email on evenings.

NO email on weekends.

EMERGENCY? = Use phone.

FOCUS 1-3 Activities max/day

LOG 1-3 Succinct status bullets every day on team wiki

MINIMIZE chat

MAXIMIZE single-tasking

OUT by 5:30PM

~No excuses~

via Simple Guidelines for Workday Quality Over Quantity | Smarterware.