Comments on: 4 Tips for Juggling Multiple Projects

By: PM Hut

PM Hut — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:23:22 +0000

Task Switching is really annoying for the PM and for the resources. It has a huge cost, direct and indirect. People tend to lose a lot of motivation and time when task switching. Here's a great article though on how to manage multitasking.

By: JTPratt's Blogging Mistakes

JTPratt's Blogging Mistakes — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:13:50 +0000

These are great tips! I think for a lot of us web workers that work on our own projects, the first one should be changed to “set firm deadlines and stick to them”…

By: Brian Nelson

Brian Nelson — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:01:11 +0000

It's always interesting to see the difference between professions. As a professional freelance writer I couldn't live without switching frequently between projects. Sure, there is some ramp up time each time you switch, but making steady forward progress on writing is much better than "forcing it" at any one time. That just gives you uninspired text that you have to re-write later!

By: Marcin Grodzicki

Marcin Grodzicki — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:12:59 +0000

As for #1 – this looks like a combination of GTD and Zen To Done. You may also want to have a look at Time Budgeting (http://litemind.com/time-budget/). Also with regular updates – mail batching helps (http://snurl.com/2e2tk).