Overview

In re-reading High Output Management recently, I was particularly interested in reading over Andy Grove’s schedule and seeing how he spent his time. I thought it might be interesting to post something similar to how I allocate my time throughout the year.

Regular Occurring Events:

Weekly 1:1’s with all direct reports Weekly 1:1’s with PM, Design, etc Weekly 1:1’s with my manager Weekly leadership meeting with pillar leadership Bi-weekly 1:1’s with peers Monthly Career Conversations with direct reports

Quarterly Meetings

Beginning/End of Quarter

Review Previous Quarter & how we did on our Goals Kickoff new Quarter, talk through new Goals

Halfway through Quarter

Review Goal Progress with Team Start planning next quarter w/ team

Biweekly (Assuming 2 week sprints):

Plan for New Sprint Complete Sprint Start New Sprint Retrospect on Previous Sprint Follow up on Retro Action Items

A typical weekly schedule

Monday

Run Standup, take notes Look for tickets due and explain state of any tickets due Go over open tickets with QA

Triage over tickets in JIRA:

• Overall Ticket Dashboard
• Ungroomed Tickets
• Missing Start Date for Epics Query
• Tickets Due

Tuesday:

Bug Triage with PM Meet with Pillar Leadership Post daily standup updates

Wednesday:

Review Healthscores for Team Review team escalations Review Open, Useful Bugs Post daily standup updates

Thursday:

Post daily standup updates

Friday:

Run Standup, take notes SLA Analysis

• How are our services doing? Go over Leadership Dashboards
• Are we on track towards our pillar’s goals? Go over Quality Dashboard
• Are we collecting debt in a certain area? Did our recent project rollouts go well? Update Project Statuses