Backlog – Again
Posted: Thu 1 March, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Getting Organised, Work-related |2 Comments »OK, so let me explain. Yesterday’s “backlog” post was (for once) not an “I’m great” post. Well, not much of one anyway.
What I was actually getting at is the slow speed that other people in the organisation, both currently and historically, seem to work at. I suppose it’s also related to the other observation I made about corporate indecisiveness, in that organisationally it just seems to take forever to get things done. In my own business, and when I’m dealing with clients, I tend to be at the other end of the scale, and work on getting things done. I find it generally leaves the people I work with happy, and feeling that their requirements and so on have been listened to, understood, and then attended to.
I bring the same attitude into the office, and get things done. Nothing waits overnight, it all gets done on the day I receive it. All the people I deal with regularly within the company know that if they have something important or urgent, it’ll be done as soon as possible.
But that attitude is apparently rare. Those same people I deal with regularly comment on it – and see it as a positive thing. But it’s still a rarity.
It’s not a complaint, not an ego-boost – just an observation.
I have to say that I understood it as intended, rather than as an “I’m geat, me” post.
Couldn’t fail to draw comparison to my experience of such worlds.
Hmmm.
OK, I guess because I work in a different profession where a lot of my incoming stuff can’t be done in a day. So my first response when someone asks “Can I have ….” is, “sure, when do you need it by..”
The fact it then takes them a week to get back to me just gives me time to get the work I was already working on, done.
But yes, in my ‘other stuff’ work, it’s very much a “just do it” philosophy.
And to be fair, my new company seems pretty much working on the ‘do it now’ philosophy as much as possible (the only possible downside is that you “do it now” without considering the business impact. How much do YOU cost per day, and thereby how much does having you spend a day doing something that isn’t needed, cost?? and so on).
Yes, organisations can be slow. And no, my previous comment wasn’t a dig!