In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dominica DeGrandis about time thieves, making work visible, the important themes from the DevOps Enterprise Summit and ways to be more productive.

Why listen to this podcast:

• If we can understand the thieves of time better we can get some time back from our overburdened work-life

• Having too much work in progress is the mother of all the other thieves of time

• Much of our work is based on arbitrary rather than real due dates

• Most daily stand up events take too long because of the focus on status - Instead of talking about what people are doing rather talk about what’s blocking them

• Different type of works needs different time focus – managers vs makers

• The value of having a regular cadence for meetings and for “Do Not Disturb” time

• The danger, and harm, that comes about from believing there are “best” practices which can be applied in complex or complicated domains

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