Q: how do you prioritise your workload

[threebikesmcginty]

I tend to put stuff off until the very last minute and then try and buy a bit more time.

 

[Trembler49]

Do the easy jobs first. Wait till difficult ones become critical and then give them to someone else.

Always worked for me.

 

[snorri]

Thank goodness I am retired.
Critical Path Analysis ?
More management speak me thinks!!!!

You must be very old, or did you retire on leaving primary school?

 

[Fiona N]

.. a critical path analysis. ...

I've always understood this to mean you do the job first which needs to be done before you can start the others*

Of course, I'm not in management



* and if you think that's obvious, I was in one workshop where one guy argued until he was blue in the face for doing first the equivalent of 'putting the roof on' before doing stuff like digging the foundations, putting down the concrete slab, building the walls. He just couldn't be persuaded that the specific task couldn't be started without some preliminary knowledge which required other tasks to be carried out first.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

You are right of course. I employed a bit of "blue sky thinking" to see if anyone was paying attention

I've always understood this to mean you do the job first which needs to be done before you can start the others*

Of course, I'm not in management



* and if you think that's obvious, I was in one workshop where one guy argued until he was blue in the face for doing first the equivalent of 'putting the roof on' before doing stuff like digging the foundations, putting down the concrete slab, building the walls. He just couldn't be persuaded that the specific task couldn't be started without some preliminary knowledge which required other tasks to be carried out first.

 

[Brains]

Thank goodness I am retired.

Critical Path Analysis ?

More management speak me thinks!!!!

In plain English 'Triage'
Only method of choosing priorities that I know of.

 

[Kirstie]

I am very good at prioritising work in that I never miss a deadline and always seem to have lots on the go at once. But ask me to describe how I do it, I really wouldn't know where to start...! By maintaining a low level of panic I suppose...

 

[byegad]

What is this work of which you speak?

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[colly]

Another thought. I find that if I have a job to do dealing with and completing the difficult stuff first helps. If that's possible of course.

I know people who 'get the easy stuff out of the way first'. Which is fine, but if the difficult work or work you really don't enjoy is left until you are running out of time that's when mistakes are made and deadlines missed.