Project Management Artifacts

Photo by  Yasmina H  on  Unsplash The coronavirus has forced us into a massive social experiment. Millions of people have experienced the feeling of working without going to the office. It is generally accepted that it is possible to work in this way. Important steps have started to come from companies in this regard. Working 4 days a week or allowing to work completely from home is accepted as the new normal of companies. I would like to share a few research results to support how correct these decisions are. Working times: Researches clearly shows us that; When we compare the time a person spends 3 or 4 hours a day by uninterruptedly focusing on his work and 8 hours spent going to the office and being exposed to interruptions, the first option provides very high productivity. You can spend 8 hours in an office, but that doesn’t mean you work 8 hours. In a study conducted in England, it was revealed that employees work productively for 2 hours and 53 minutes during the d...

Resource: Opinio Juris And Zeus condemns King Sisyphus to roll a large boulder off to the top of a steep hill. When Sisyphus reaches the top of the hill, the rock will slip out of his grasp and Sisyphus will have to start all over again; Forever. The great philosopher Aristotle divided the activities into two, 2300 years ago. Goal-oriented activities and regular activities. Goal-oriented activities are the sum of activities done to achieve a goal. For example, you have a monthly sales quota goal, you achieve it, and the next month’s goal comes in even higher. You take part in a project with excitement, you succeed, and then you come across a more complex and difficult project. Wanting to reach a specific goal motivates and excites people. It creates great satisfaction when the goal is achieved. But this feeling of satisfaction comes and goes. In order to achieve a new sense of satisfaction, you set a new goal and start rolling the boulder up again. Regular activities are the sum of act...

FreePic Due to my profession and expertise, time management is one of the subjects I focus on the most. I have read a lot of resources on planning, acting according to the plan, investigating the causes of deviations and then better planning methods, and I have had the chance to make many applications in projects. I can write dozens of reasons for the deviation of a plan, but in this article, I aim to focus on one of the root causes of deviations from the plan. Therefore, I determined the title of the article as “Daily Calendars for Employees and Managers”. As the title suggests, we’re going to look at the daily calendars of managers and employees who actually do the work. If we consider the calendar of a senior manager, we see that it is divided into one-hour or half-hour periods. The calendar is divided into meeting people from different levels of the company at certain time intervals. E.g; 9:00–9:30 meeting with the team. The 10:00–11:00 meeting with the assistant general manager, t...