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Classic Nerd Guru: 259 post-vacation emails

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Note: This article originally ran on November 29, 2007, is slightly edited for reprint in an effort to share previously published ideas with new readers.

We’ve all been there: you take some time off and you come back to an avalanche of email. As you may know, I recently went on my annual vacation (last time I mention it, I promise 8)) and when I came back I had 259 emails to read. This Running Diary tells gives a rundown of how I reduced it to zero in about three hours.
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Do a million of them

Monday, September 15th, 2008

I am at the tail end of work on the HP-EDS merger, which consisted mostly of being part of a team that decided how to consolidate IT assets that both companies had down into one in the combined company.  The deliverables for my part of it were a set of project estimates that are now in the process of being funded, which will then be staffed properly and executed over the next few financial quarters.  If you get the estimate wrong, the project doesn’t get the staffing it needs and either gets delivered late or with reduced scope.  No pressure though.
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