You're overwhelmed with design projects and time constraints. How can you stay organized and efficient?
When project piles loom and deadlines threaten, staying organized is key. Here's how to streamline your workflow:
How do you manage a heavy design workload? Feel free to share your strategies.
You're overwhelmed with design projects and time constraints. How can you stay organized and efficient?
When project piles loom and deadlines threaten, staying organized is key. Here's how to streamline your workflow:
How do you manage a heavy design workload? Feel free to share your strategies.
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Tight time is always quite inevitable particularly considering engineering and design phase of any capital mega projects having thousands of engineering deliverables. To avoid overwhelming in such situations following are few key considerations. - To know and understand well what is critical and non-critical engineering deliverables on the scale of safety, availability and reliability during lifecycle of respective asset/delivered entity. - To understand criticality and non-criticality it is important to have foresight and visibility gained with realistic situations and experience in past. - Delegate and collaborate with team members and stakeholders on regular basis. - Limit distractions and keep on track of priority.
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Breaking down the "To-Do List" into "easily manageable" tasks can take the weight off the view of the load as a whole and provides a strategy for achieving little wins. Demonstrating progress is a great method for staying the course and not getting overwhelmed by the bigger picture.
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