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Time Management for System Administrators

By Thomas A. Limoncelli

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| Paperback | 9780596007836

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Time is a precious commodity, especially if you're a system administrator. No other job pulls people in so many directions at once. Users interrupt you constantly with requests, preventing you from getting anything done. Your managers want you to get long-term projects done but flood you with requesContinue

Time is a precious commodity, especially if you're a system administrator. No other job pulls people in so many directions at once. Users interrupt you constantly with requests, preventing you from getting anything done. Your managers want you to get long-term projects done but flood you with requests for quick-fixes that prevent you from ever getting to those long-term projects. But the pressure is on you to produce and it only increases with time. What do you do?
The answer is time management. And not just any time management theory--you want Time Management for System Administrators, to be exact. With keen insights into the challenges you face as a sys admin, bestselling author Thomas Limoncelli has put together a collection of tips and techniques that will help you cultivate the time management skills you need to flourish as a system administrator.

Time Management for System Administrators understands that an Sys Admin often has competing goals: the concurrent responsibilities of working on large projects and taking care of a user's needs. That's why it focuses on strategies that help you work through daily tasks, yet still allow you to handle critical situations that inevitably arise.

Among other skills, you'll learn how to:

Manage interruptions
Eliminate timewasters
Keep an effective calendar
Develop routines for things that occur regularly
Use your brain only for what you're currently working on
Prioritize based on custo... [예스24 제공]

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  • The underlying principles are generic, yet, the examples are specific to SA day-to-day work. I am not a technical guy, therefore, I can't really share some of the author's suggestions. Like the programming language, Perl and Ruby, I have no idea what it is all about. But it seems to ease the pain of ... (continue)

    The underlying principles are generic, yet, the examples are specific to SA day-to-day work. I am not a technical guy, therefore, I can't really share some of the author's suggestions. Like the programming language, Perl and Ruby, I have no idea what it is all about. But it seems to ease the pain of SAs by writing some simple but common-used syntax once, then you can reuse it for other many similar programs.

    Prioritization is the chapter I like the most. I recommend all SAs to read this chapter. SAs, please take the users' expectation into account when you prioritize your work. We really cannot wait for 1 working day for our simple request like resetting the password!!!!

    To save our time, automation every tasks sound great. However, we can't automate everything. What to automate then? The author categories 4 types of problem typically faced by SAs: (1) Simple things done once; (2) Hard things done once; (3) Simple things done often; (4) Hard things done often. What type of problems should be automated? Get the answer yourself by reading the book!

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 226 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0596007833
  • ISBN-13: 9780596007836
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • Pub date: Nov 22, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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