This is a guest blog post by Skye J. Coleman, PE
These days, the modern engineering office is filled with cubicles stacked right next to one another. Two monitors sit on each desk and low-profile dividers barely separate one person from the next. For 8 to 10 hours a day, Monday through Friday, engineers young and old sit pensively at their assigned work station, cranking away at their to-do lists trying to meet or beat their next deadline. It’s time to change things up and get to know the 3 D’s of productivity.
So, if you’re an engineer in one of those offices, I hate to tell you… but your work output is pathetic.
Chances are, most of those deadlines will not be hit and if they are the resulting project work will only be partially finished. Distractions and fires from previously “completed” projects will take priority and the proverbial can will be kicked down the road to construction phase services where you’ll have to answer immediate RFI’s from the field distracting you from the design project assigned to you at that time. [Read more…] about The 3 D’s of Productivity or How to Work Smarter not Faster as an Engineer
