Jenny has some good comments. With her comments of a form and mgt buy-in, I would add that you should require each project to have a business sponsor and a project charter.
Basically, the sponsor is the person or person's mgr that is requesting the project. The charter is the business justification for the project. I found that many projects are not really that important once the requestor realizes they must do some paperwork to actually justify their request. They think they can stop you in the hallway and say, "Create an application that maintains Widgets", but they don't realize there is no real business justification or the amount of resources used to create the application far outweigh the ROI. M!ke -----Original Message----- From: Webmaster at FastTrack On Line [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 5:58 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Time management Hi Donna, Number 1, don't have people coming to your desk if you can at all help it. Tell them all requests for change have to be at least emailed, better still sent to you on a form. Get buy in to your need to manage your time from your line manager or you are really up there without a paddle. I've been in that situation many a time, and unless you get total support from your line manager it's going to be horrendous. My tuppenth, Jenny ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:220785 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
