The art of Doing twice the work in Half the time (2) && （3）

The art of Doing twice the work in Half the time (2) 

Never ever set down where you are, constantly improve yourself.

Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA)

Duty, Honor, Country (West point)

Keep you team small, 5-9 people.

What can we change about how we work? And what is our biggest sticking point?

Blame is stupid, don’t look for bad people, look for bad system.

Daily stand-up.

Demo or die.

Everyone knows everything. (possible?)

The art of Doing twice the work in Half the time (3)

Do one thing at a time. (Multiple-tasking is no good, think about driving on a highway while talking on the phone.)  People who are doing multiple tasking at the same time, cannot focus. Also task switching takes long time than you image. Be cautious about the cost of context switching.

Half done is not done at all.

Do things right the first time (like Toyota).

 Working too hard only makes more work.

No more work at nights and on weekends. That will make you create more mistakes than you fix.

Don’t work under great press, moderate is OK, otherwise that will destroy your productivity.

Measure the result not the process or time /effort put into it.

A team should not depend on a hero or heroine member, otherwise it is defective.

Effortless flow.

Don’t set unreasonable goal.