Really.
What IS it ?
People all over the place keep throwing it at you.
I need two loadrunner resources asap.
The customer wants to see the plan asap.
What's the priority of this task ? "asap".
Well, OK, I know what they really mean. They mean to say that it is urgent and pressing. Maybe I'm just nit picking on language. But indulge my language issue for a bit: ( BTW, I'm no grammar expert)
Start Nit Picking:
As soon as possible. As if anyone ever plans any differently. Have you heard of any plans that use the as late as possible principle? Of course I'll do it asap. That's how I do all my stuff.
End Nit Picking
OK, understood. They mean urgent. But that's still little help. That helps little when planning stuff. If I have 10 things to do on my task list, maybe this will take away 3 of them, the 3 that are just nice to do. But what about the other 7 ? Should I just drop them and spend all my time on this one? Or spend half my time on it? Should I spend more money to get this done?
Well, yes, I can find the real urgency by asking the right questions, but doesn't it help if some are already answered ?
To end, here's a customer who regularly sends us tasks over emails that start with " This is urgent as well as important". :-)
What IS it ?
People all over the place keep throwing it at you.
I need two loadrunner resources asap.
The customer wants to see the plan asap.
What's the priority of this task ? "asap".
Well, OK, I know what they really mean. They mean to say that it is urgent and pressing. Maybe I'm just nit picking on language. But indulge my language issue for a bit: ( BTW, I'm no grammar expert)
Start Nit Picking:
As soon as possible. As if anyone ever plans any differently. Have you heard of any plans that use the as late as possible principle? Of course I'll do it asap. That's how I do all my stuff.
End Nit Picking
OK, understood. They mean urgent. But that's still little help. That helps little when planning stuff. If I have 10 things to do on my task list, maybe this will take away 3 of them, the 3 that are just nice to do. But what about the other 7 ? Should I just drop them and spend all my time on this one? Or spend half my time on it? Should I spend more money to get this done?
Well, yes, I can find the real urgency by asking the right questions, but doesn't it help if some are already answered ?
To end, here's a customer who regularly sends us tasks over emails that start with " This is urgent as well as important". :-)
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take a break Ankur,,u r getting too much of things to do ASAP,,,,welll if ur customer wants to do all things so urgently and ASAP,,just tell him u need few more people to work on his urgent items,,and the cost thereof...
Another good idea is that for every urgent request-- he makes some contribution to project party fund...
Do something abt this ASAP ;-)
so what did u do to get out of this ASAP stuff??
Well, I asked questions such as the ones in my post.
So, for instance, if someone says " I need an estimate for x task asap", I ask
- Is there a deadline ?
- if doing this means delaying task y by 5 hours, is that OK ?
u r 2 logical for ur own goood,,i can bet ppl wud be hating u for this :-D
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