Workload tracking?

Posted by Larry Kollar
Oct 20, 2017 at 11:07 PM

In the last six weeks, my workload went from “fairly light” to “OMGWTF.” Until this week, stuff was piling in faster than I could get it out, and I can bang out the work when I’ve got it lined up. I usually keep to-do stuff in my outliner (Tines, running under Cygwin), and it accidentally turned into a Kanban-style setup—active work items, backlog, and completed.

The part that makes it all work, more than what software I’m using, is blocking out an hour of time on Friday afternoons to do my weekly report (which involves looking at the checked-off items in Tines) and plan what I’m going to do next week (picking stuff out of the backlog). It’s almost like a personal sprint.

This got me wondering… what kinds of secret sauce have you guys come up with (or accidentally stumbled into) to help you keep track of a heavy workload?