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Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & flow
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Business & Careers, Management & Leadership
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Publisher's Summary
If someone stole your wallet, you'd notice it. So why don't people notice when they are robbed of something much more valuable than their wallet - time?
Today's workers are drowning: nonstop requests for time, days filled to the brim with meetings, and endless nights spent heroically fixing the latest problems. This churn and burn is creating a workforce constantly on the edge of burnout.
In this timely book, IT time management expert Dominica DeGrandis reveals the real crime of the century - time theft, one of the most costly factors impacting enterprises in their day-to-day operations.
Through simple solutions that make work visible, DeGrandis helps people round up the five thieves of time and take back their lives with time-saving solutions. Chock-full of exercises, takeaways, real-world examples, and an easy-going writing style, readers will quickly learn effective practices to create high-performing workflows within an organization.
The technology world - and indeed the whole business world - is moving at a pace faster than ever before, and it shows no signs of slowing down. Instead of consigning ourselves to the pressure cooker of the modern world, it's time to elevate how we work. It's time to level up our game. It's time to make work visible.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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- Baz Gui
- 2019-08-13
Awesome book for de ops leaders
I am amazed at the ability of the author to put words and describe my ream’s day to work life, full of interruptions, conflicting priorities,l and too much work in progress.
I am yet to implement some of the numerous solutions and tools offered in this book but I are practical and actionable
2 people found this helpful
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- Mr & Mrs Henry
- 2020-09-28
Kanban boards made easy and simple
A good introduction to the kanban board concept and how to make the best use of this tool for managing work.
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- Todd scanlan
- 2018-12-21
great book for any transformation initiate
great book, really shows the benefits of using Kanban and working in the open. at first I didn't like the narrators voice, but it grew on me.
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- Mike Esch
- 2020-01-28
Buy the ebook instead
There are some 60 visual references that can't be seen in an audio book. Get the ebook instead.
21 people found this helpful
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- Yogi
- 2019-03-02
It Found My Issue
I was so overworked, just bouncing from task to task, never enjoying anything at work, wondering why my stress level was through the roof. Manager above me of course using the old "you need to delegate more". I sort of believed it, but the tactics in this book showed me the true problem. The problem of dependencies and unplanned work are revealed with her tactics. Using her methods of making my own work visible, I can address the real problem, which was never not delegating enough. Really a work changer for me. I have listened to it several times and use her methods to make my work visible, unfortunately I am just a staff worker and can't help the company with making all work visible. Pity.
12 people found this helpful
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- Lou
- 2018-10-31
Straight forward treatise on dealing with IT work
Easy to listen to, makes total sense and something I can use at work today. it definitely spoke to me.
It should be noted that anyone listening to this should download the PDF and follow along with the diagrams. Sooner things were harder to visualize in my head without it.
7 people found this helpful
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- Russ
- 2018-07-02
Fantastic read!! This book is really eye opening!
I've already started implementing these practices with great success! Despite some belly-aching, my team is reaping the benefits. Wonderful read!!
6 people found this helpful
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- Cash
- 2018-09-02
Bringing the benefits of Agile to Operations
I'm a strong believer of the Agile method in software development. But when faced with managing a devops operational group I noticed the struggle of forcing agile into the operational model of continuous small changes to the system and operations. This book helped me transform the agile Sprint methodology into a high-performing Kanban team. It has already helped a lot, and I plan to really listen to it again to incrementally improve what I've already started.Oone of the most useful books I've listened to this year.
5 people found this helpful
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- Rancher
- 2017-12-01
Six Stars
Loved this book, my only criticism is I wish it didn’t have as much of a tech or development focus, since I’m in a Different industry. But overall superb.
10 people found this helpful
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- AJ B.
- 2020-05-15
Excellent, best audiobook on lean/kanban/workflow!
Best audiobook on workflow, lean, kanban (and board design) , queuing theory, etc. Robertsens books are great when it comes to paperback, but if you are looking for an audiobook on these topics, this is your gem. Well done, boiled down and consise, right on point. And narrated well too. also, this book has personality. Dominica is funny and uses excellent real world examples. Some books on project management can be kind of robotic sounding. not this one. I'm on my third listen it's a type of book you could read over and over again.
3 people found this helpful
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- Georgiy Ivankin
- 2018-05-22
Great book - read it!
It's a great book, and I found reading it much more rewarding than listening. Narration wasn't great (to my taste), and the book is highly structured and has great illustrations by Dominica. You will just get much more from reading it.
3 people found this helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-03-15
Super Impressed
This book gave me the clarity I needed to embark on a Kannan journey with my team. In short period of time, I'm a Software Delivery expert operate at the company level. That's the power of this book.
2 people found this helpful
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- Raidcore
- 2019-08-22
good reader. ok book
it felt like it was missing something. worth the buy all things considered. the narrator was easy to understand and pleasant to listen to.
2 people found this helpful