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Subject:RE: The last minute crunch From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:'Samuel Choy' <schoy -at- us -dot- ibm -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:50:04 -0400
Well, of the gazillion hours, what do you spend the majority of them on? Use
that as a guideline to know if you had everything up to control to that
point.
f'instance...right now, I'm spending the bulk of my time getting all my
images resized and optimized. I screwed up and waited to the end, instead of
making sure that when I created an image, I finished the image.
-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel Choy [mailto:schoy -at- us -dot- ibm -dot- com]
Hello all,
I had a big deadline last week. I got it done on time, but by golly, I had
to work a gazillion hours of overtime the last two weeks to accomplish it.
It seems that with just about every deadline I have, I go through the last
minute crush. And it doesn't seem to matter how well I planned the doc. I
felt that I had planned this last doc very well. Does that happen to any
of you? Or am I just an idiot when it comes to scheduling? If any of you
has a technique to avoid around the last minute crush, or a way of planning
for the unplannable, or a crystal ball to see the unforeseen, I'd like to
hear about it .
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