How to: Handling Open Items Files
We are living in an ocean of information. Always on the edge, laying out new stuff, still having to consider everything for the end result to be in the realm of real, useful, and reliable. But how do you cope with that afflux of information, how do you grasp all it’s its intricacies and interconnection. How do you find out what’s conflicting or missing? Can you hold everything inside your head? I cannot! And that’s why I need a tool to help. Something that can help organizing and managing every finding of the entire team, and self. Why I found to be extremely helpful and reliable is, of course not rocket science again, but a simple list containing all open items. It’s an open document that’s being shared among all team members to collect questions or point out unclarities or mistakes. How to use open items lists The simplest, and in my opinion effective, approach is to create an excel sheet and store it on the network as a shareable collaborative file. The file should contain the follo...