<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a014e311-1ec1-4600-9399-6843aebf3119/A7B2E229-B7AF-4039-9FE4-5DB764DFEEF2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.lodewijkvdb.com/2007/06/why_backlogs_su.html" href="http://blog.lodewijkvdb.com/2007/06/why_backlogs_su.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.lodewijkvdb.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.lodewijkvdb.com/2007/06/why_backlogs_su.html"><P><STRONG>So why do they exist?</STRONG><BR />Backlogs come to be mainly because of two reasons:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.lodewijkvdb.com/2007/06/why_backlogs_su.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">You lack the habit to prevent it</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.lodewijkvdb.com/2007/06/why_backlogs_su.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">You lack the will to do it </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.lodewijkvdb.com/2007/06/why_backlogs_su.html"><P><STRONG>Now how do we get rid of them?</STRONG><BR />The outlook of being dissatisfied by the existence of backlogs is not very appealing to me. So I started working on them to get rid of them. What works for me is this:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.lodewijkvdb.com/2007/06/why_backlogs_su.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>Assess the size of the backlog<BR /></STRONG>This is necessary to determine how much time it's going to take.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.lodewijkvdb.com/2007/06/why_backlogs_su.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>Determine the habit you need to prevent it in the future <BR /></STRONG>There's no point in solving something, when you're not going to prevent it from happening again. So what habit do you need to develop?</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.lodewijkvdb.com/2007/06/why_backlogs_su.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>Learn about the new habit</STRONG><BR />Read about it, find people who master the habit, talk to them, visualize yourself doing it.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.lodewijkvdb.com/2007/06/why_backlogs_su.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>Plan your work on the backlog<BR /></STRONG>Develop a plan of attack. This varies from person to person. Some people like working long hours to get it done, I like chunk size bits I can do in 2 to 3 hours. But I plan them to get to the end of it.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.lodewijkvdb.com/2007/06/why_backlogs_su.html"><STRONG>Start working</STRONG></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A7B2E229-B7AF-4039-9FE4-5DB764DFEEF2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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