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Time management is the act or process of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity.

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What are good tasks for "not enough time to start on something big" moments?

It happens fairly frequently that I'll finish up a big project or get done with a meeting around 30-45 minutes before my time to go home. There are usually things that need to be done, but it usually isn't worth it to start on those projects with…
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Org-mode: divide agenda by blocks of 20 items

I want to implement Autofocus system in org-mode using agenda views. Autofocus is a time-management system, where you write tasks in a lined notebook with 25-35 lines on a page and you don't start working on the next page until you processed the…
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File Time sum not showing org mode Clock Table

In org agenda clock table the file time is coming ** instead of sum of time in all task. How can I fix this? Update: This issue has been fixed in the latest build or org-mode and emacs
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How long does it really take to do something?

I mean name off a programming project you did and how long it took, please. The boss has never complained but I sometimes feel like things take too long. But this could be because I am impatient as well. Let me know your experiences for…
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Effective Methods to Manage Digital Distraction

With the plethora of communication methods available to co-workers, how do you manage to keep distractions at bay for a large enough block of time to accomplish some focused programming? Do you quit or close all communications, have you informed…
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How many of you are recording their historical project-data - for future estimates and how are you doing it?

When working on a project - I always estimate my tasks and calculate how long it will take me to finish. So in the end I get a time-span in which the project should be finished (it rarely is). My question is - do you record your data and assumptions…
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Could you work on a project for more than 10 years without releasing anything?

I was surfing the web and found myself at 3D Realms hiring page. It sounds quite nice what they are advertising there. Everywhere you can read things like "Freedom from arbitrary completion date pressures". This sounded very sensible to me since I…
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If I wanted to work using dates and time going millions of years into the past/future how would I do it?

If I wanted to work using dates and time going millions of years into the past/future how would I do it in C/C++/C#? For example say I was working on an algorithm to see if a comet was going to hit the earth? Are there commercial or open source…
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Count / sum-up weekly work time by calendar category (MS Outlook)

Is there a way to sum up the time of all meetings for each category (e.g. red) for a specific period of time (e.g. the last week) in Outlook? Thereby, I want to analyze how a spend my time during the week [I assign every single time slot to exactly…
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Telling Bullet That Something Happened In The Past

Is it possible to tell bullet that something has happened in the past so it can take this information and adjust internal interpolation to show this change in the present? There would never be a need to go back in time more than 1-5 seconds, 5 being…
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web-based project management and time keeping software?

I work in a web shop where most of us aren't programmers. (I am.) Structure is almost non-existent. The biggest beauracratic construct is logging our time since that is essential for business. A few of us are project managers but everyone has…
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Always staying behind at work - sign of bad project management?

Leaving work at my contractual end of play time seems to be a rare event. Usually work has to be done that requires working an hour over the end of the day, or a meeting (time differences are a real pain). Is there anything I can do to avoid this? I…
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How to do your best when everybody is too busy?

Sometimes I have seen some code or part of the project which I could improve but is not related with my current team project. Those times I have a conflict because despite wanting to help, many teams lack enough people and doing extra work seems…
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What you do as developer with non-bugs client requests, f.e small fix in UI?

I am only one person working on project - so I am developer without PM above me. I finished portal, hovewer client from time to time attacks me with request such as "make font bigger" or change margin in css or make button which makes "xxx and yyy".…
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Habits that help context switch between tasks easily

One of the challenges of being on a small team (sometimes even large organizations) is needing to switch contexts very often. I could be writing PHP code right now, followed by some completely unrelated C++ an hour from now, followed by HTML/JS…
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