‫So you've asked yourself again, who's it for?
‫And you've answered your own question.
‫And it's the people you're working with, the ones you're sitting next to, or maybe they're in a a
‫group chat.
‫And now, in today's day and age, it saddens me how many communication channels there are, because
‫most of them encourage communicating too often.
‫Now, one thing you'll probably pick up is that unless it's an emergency, now is often never the best
‫time.
‫So let's break this down.
‫Projects you work on will have arbitrarily long timelines with many milestones, plans and steps.
‫And keep in mind, the longer the timescale, the worse humans are at dealing with them.
‫Break it down.
‫Days and weeks are much easier.
‫Units of time to understand.
‫What are you working on this week?
‫Write it down.
‫Share it with the team.
‫This not only consolidates your thinking.
‫It gives your team an opportunity to ask questions and offer advice.
‫You'll find that short term progress often disappoints, but long term progress surprises.
‫So if you're working on a six month project, you can break this down, like starting from zero months.
‫It might be hard to realize what's happening right at the end.
‫So you break it down.
‫You've got a four week month.
‫You break one month into four weeks and then you break one week into five days.
‫I don't know about you, but when I try to think of something that's six months ahead, I have a lot
‫of trouble.
‫But when I break it down to go, what can I do today?
‫That's going to add up to this week and what can I do in this month that's going to add up to this first
‫month here and then go same for the next one.
‫Same for the third one.
‫And then by the time I get to this end of six months, I realize, wow, I've actually come a long way
‫and it's all from breaking it down into days and weeks.
‫Now, the first part of this is what did you work on today?
‫Now, of course, this is just one technique that you might want to try, but you could set a reminder
‫for the end of each day and have it ask you, what did you work on today?
‫Your response doesn't have to be too long, but it should be written down.
‫You could use the following template what I worked on today.
‫So 1 to 3 points on what you did.
‫Maybe you could do what's working, what's not working, what could be improved, and what I'm working
‫on next.
‫What's your next course of action based on the above and why?
‫What's holding you back?
‫Remember that conversation want to have with your project manager or team lead or something like that?
‫They want to be able to remove roadblocks for you so you can get back to doing the work you're best
‫at to coding projects.
‫Relate all of these back to the overall project goal.
‫That's six month project.
‫Pretty hard to understand in one go, but day by day, week by week, sending these updates through
‫to your team, this is really going to help out.
‫And so what you want to do is take note of the overlaps which questions arise.
‫If a question gets asked more than three times, it should be documented somewhere for others to reference.
‫And you'll see that some of the communication points for the people you're sitting with cross over with
‫your project manager, just like we've discussed before.
‫Now, of course, I trust your smart enough to figure out when the things that you're communicating
‫with your teammates also need to be communicated with your project managers and seniors.
‫It's going to be hard to put in any of these communication techniques with people on your team if you
‫don't actually have a job or aren't on a team yet.
‫So in the next video, we'll look at what to do before you have a job.