http://www.orbeon.com/blog/2007/06/02/producticity-rowe-result-only-work-environment/ XForms Everywhere Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:53:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 http://www.orbeon.com/blog/2007/06/02/producticity-rowe-result-only-work-environment/#comment-555 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:57:10 +0000 http://www.orbeon.com/blog/2007/06/02/producticity-rowe-result-only-work-environment/#comment-555 If the average is 45 emails a day and 5.6 hours in meetings, I am certainly on the far right side of the Gaussian curve. GTD, while it might not be the way to salvation, has very interesting concepts and, if you don't want to go fully to the pen-and-paper implementation of it, have a look at a software called ThinkingRock. ROWE, from what I've seen on the web site, I am wondering how this can work... let's take the example of North American retail. There are fixed days in the year (black Friday for example) that are independent of how the company is structured... without a schedule (e.g. need to get the rebates and crazy promotions in place for the Thanksgiving week-end, and need for a work back plan to achieve it), how would that work. And if employees don't count hours, isn't this a way to expect over-hours from upper-management. Interestingly, while looking at more information about ROWE, I noticed that there doesn't seem to be any page about this on Wikipedia, while GTD has a very extensive section. If the average is 45 emails a day and 5.6 hours in meetings, I am certainly on the far right side of the Gaussian curve. GTD, while it might not be the way to salvation, has very interesting concepts and, if you don’t want to go fully to the pen-and-paper implementation of it, have a look at a software called ThinkingRock. ROWE, from what I’ve seen on the web site, I am wondering how this can work… let’s take the example of North American retail. There are fixed days in the year (black Friday for example) that are independent of how the company is structured… without a schedule (e.g. need to get the rebates and crazy promotions in place for the Thanksgiving week-end, and need for a work back plan to achieve it), how would that work. And if employees don’t count hours, isn’t this a way to expect over-hours from upper-management. Interestingly, while looking at more information about ROWE, I noticed that there doesn’t seem to be any page about this on Wikipedia, while GTD has a very extensive section.

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