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Team capacity
Team capacity is a simple function of the hours worked by the number of team members. One flaw is how many hours can be expected as 'working hours'.
Working continuously for the entire 'working hours' would be 100% utilization. This means there is no extra time during the day to say hi to a coworker.
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Meetings can kill productivity
To avoid over meeting for no reason
- Need to have specific question or specific information that cannot be done by email
- Reduce default time from 1 hour to 30 min
- block meeting free times for your team in their calendar
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Burnout
Running at 100% capacity will lead to burnout. This is not MIGHT, this WILL happen. Even our computer running at 100% CPU capacity will burnout. Our brian is the same way.
A standard work day of 8 hours might be reduced to 5 or 6 hours of productivity. This should be factored into team capa...
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Very successful companies have never struck me as particularly busy; in fact, they are, as a group, rather laid back. Energy is evident in the workplace, but it's not the energy tinged with fear that comes from being slightly behind on everything.
TOM DEMARCO
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Busy vs Productive
Don't confuse busy with productive. Just because you have wall to wall meetings, doesn't meet you have a productive day. That means you are too busy to be productive and are not utilizing your time effectively.
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Burnout
Running at 100% capacity will lead to burnout. This is not MIGHT, this WILL happen. Even our computer running at 100% CPU capacity will burnout. Our brian is the same way.
A standard work day of 8 hours might be reduced to 5 or 6 hours of productivity. This should be factored into team capa...
Setting up the stringent work schedules
Many managers and team leaders commit the mistake of poking the team members on random occasions during the day or night. But this is not a good practice. You must allow some private space to the workers that will allow them to maintain a work-life balance.
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Category 1: Losers
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