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Khloe Brown

Thats genuinely interesting hearing about the details of project management as a job with a team (I've only worked solo on my own stuff). It's cool that you get to work with various people and departments to get the work flowing correctly. A very interesting job!

For the technical writing, how do you manage the time and work flow as it seems to be more of just a you job?

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Lauren Fosgett

I tend to break it up by the day of the week, what stage the project is in, and what days I have the fewest meetings, ha!

At the beginning of a project I'll be more focused on writing user stories, and closer to the end of the project is when I dig into the user guides, once a lot of the actual implementation is closer to being prod-ready (which helps for screenshots, and in case anything has changed since we first started talking about the project). This balances out even when projects overlap at different stages.

Tuesdays and Fridays usually have the least amount of time spent in meetings, so I'll use those days to focus and blast through larger efforts like the user guides. Otherwise, if things are especially busy, then I block off 1-2 hour chunks of "focus" time on my calendar so I can work uninterrupted. I prefer to schedule these in the morning, but again with meetings that sometimes means I can only dedicate some time in the afternoons to focus.

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Khloe Brown

Gotcha! I find that day-themeing and time blocking help me for many things as well.

I'm thinking of "Learn in Public" topic to be along those lines or something else to help teach others about useful productivity "hacks" to help the work their best.

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Lauren Fosgett

I look forward to seeing what you write up! I could definitely use advice in that area. As much as I time block at work, I have a hard time doing so for my personal projects.