Re: WaH

["Dana Worley" <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com>]

On Monday, September 15, 2008, Beth Agnew wrote: 

> I'm chiming in a bit late, sorry, but the weekly status/progress e-mail 
> might not be amiss: this is what I did this past week, here's what I 
> plan to be working on this week coming, and these are the issues (if 
> any)  that we need to deal with that might affect my continued progress.

I request this out of all my on-site workers. 

Sometimes we all get busy and barely have time to come up for air. If *my* boss comes to 
me and wants to know what my group is doing (or a particular member of the group), I want 
to be able to answer with something other than, "Hmmm.... I don't know but he seems to be 
busy". :) With some of my folks, it's easy to see what they are doing. With others who might 
not produce as much "measurable" output, it's harder (for instance, someone who does 
mostly Customer Support be we are not "officially" CS, so there are no phone logs to verify).  

I don't need a novella, just a quick list of "this week I worked on X, Y & Z". I have apologized 
to my group for asking for something so micro-manager-like, but no one seems to mind (or at 
least they won't admit it, and everyone is pretty good about shooting me an email regularly).

Dana W.



Dana Worley
Software Product Manager/Manager, Software Support Group
750-1751


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