Summary and Schedule
Overview
This lesson will introduce you to a number of tools designed to help you work more efficiently. The aim is not to increase your productivity for the benefit of your employer, but as a form of self-care. The idea is to help you keep on top of your tasks, to reduce anxiety and make sure that you can have a life outside the office.
We do not intend to present a single solution for everyone, but you may find some techniques from these various frameworks work for you. This lesson is aimed at the research software engineering community but may also be useful to those working in other areas.
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Background
This lesson was initially created at Collaborations Workshop ’24, an event hosted by the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI).
| Setup Instructions | Download files required for the lesson | |
| Duration: 00h 00m | 1. Task Management for Humans |
How can you use tools and frameworks to work more effectively, not so
you can do more work for your employer but as a form of self care? |
| Duration: 00h 12m | 2. Mental health challenges specific to RSEs |
What are the specific features of research software
engineering? Which specific mental health challenges the RSE context may bring? |
| Duration: 00h 32m | 3. Where tasks come from, identifying and managing them |
“Where do tasks come from?” “How do different task management systems handle them?” |
| Duration: 00h 52m | 4. Tools for task management | What are some of the tools available that learners might find useful? |
| Duration: 01h 04m | 5. Techniques - Inbox Zero |
Does keeping on top of your e-mail inbox cause you stress or feel
unmanageable? Are there techniques to help without those techniques becoming a burden in themselves? |
| Duration: 01h 16m | Finish |
The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.