如何通過使用Andy Grove的High Leverage Activities加快發展？ (How to speed up your development by using Andy Grove’s High Leverage Activities ?)

You're constantly building on new features, fixing new bugs, and improving existing code. Along the way, your to-do list can become so hopelessly long that you have no clue what to work on next.

您將不斷開發新功能，修復新錯誤并改進現有代碼。一路上，您的待辦事項清單可能變得如此無望，以至于您不知道下一步該做什么。

“There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.”

“有這么多人努力工作，卻成就不大。”

— Andy Grove, former Intel CEO

—前英特爾首席執行官安迪·格羅夫(Andy Grove)

In this post, I’ll show you the power of leverage, and how to use it to improve your decision-making process. I’ll use some examples from the book High Output Management which was written by the late engineering legend Andy Grove himself.

在這篇文章中，我將向您展示杠桿的力量，以及如何利用它來改善您的決策過程。我將使用已故的工程傳奇人物安迪·格羅夫(Andy Grove)自己寫的《高輸出管理》一書中的一些示例。

This will help you boost your productivity by getting rid of repetitive work, and investing time your time in tasks that will yield a bigger impact.

這將避免重復工作，并把時間花在可以產生更大影響的任務上，從而幫助您提高生產率。

安迪·格魯夫(Andy Grove)所說的“杠桿”是什么意思？ (What does Andy Grove mean by “leverage”?)

You can define leverage by asking a simple question. Is the value or impact that a task will produce per time invested currently worth the time? It’s like the return on investment for the effort that’s put in.

您可以通過問一個簡單的問題來定義杠桿。目前，一項任務所投入的時間所產生的價值或影響是否值得？這就像付出的努力帶來的投資回報。

Time is your most limited resource, so make sure you’re spending your time on the right activity.
時間是您最有限的資源，因此請確保您將時間花在正確的活動上。

No matter who you are, at some point in your career, there’s more work to be done than time available. This means you’ll need to start prioritizing your work.

無論您是誰，在職業生涯的某個時刻，要做的工作都比空余的時間多。這意味著您需要開始確定工作的優先級。

At the end of each day, you should take time to reflect, and look for things that you can do better the next day. Without reflection, you may end up spending way to much time on doing things that don’t matter right now.

在每天結束時，您應該花點時間思考，并尋找第二天可以做得更好的事情。如果沒有反思，您可能最終會花很多時間在做不重要的事情上。

如何增加杠桿 (How to increasing your leverage)

Let’s say you’re spending 20 minutes every morning going through your mailbox, only to delete most of the spam emails. This is a repetitive and time-consuming task. You can increase your leverage here by investing some time in configuring smart inboxes that will filter all the spam out of your email. This can reduce your time spent reading through your mailbox by 50%.

假設您每天早上花20分鐘瀏覽郵箱，只是刪除大多數垃圾郵件。這是一項重復且耗時的任務。您可以在此處花費一些時間來配置智能收件箱，以將所有垃圾郵件從您的電子郵件中過濾掉，從而增加杠桿作用。這樣可以將花費在閱讀郵箱中的時間減少50％。

Configuring those smart inboxes may take you one hour at most. Good investment, right? You just saved 50 minutes every week that you can spend on something that is actually worth your time. This is around 2,600 minutes each year — equal to a full work week.

配置這些智能收件箱最多可能需要一個小時。好投資吧？您每周僅節省了50分鐘的時間，您就可以花在實際上值得您花時間的事情上。每年大約需要2600分鐘，相當于一周的工作時間。

Your leverage can only be increased in three ways:

您的杠桿作用只能通過三種方式增加：

Reducing the time it takes to complete a certain activity
減少完成某項活動所需的時間
Increasing the output of a particular activity
增加特定活動的輸出
Changing your focus to higher-leverage activities
將重點轉移到高杠桿活動

These three ways naturally translate into three questions you can ask yourself about any activity you’re working on:

這三種方式自然會轉化為三個問題，您可以問自己有關正在進行的任何活動：

How can I complete this activity in a shorter amount of time?
如何在較短的時間內完成此活動？
How can I increase the value produced by this activity?
如何增加這項活動產生的價值？
Is there something else that I could spend my time on that would produce more value?
還有什么我可以花時間在上面的東西可以產生更多的價值嗎？

Let’s say you’ve scheduled a one-hour meeting. How can you increase that meeting’s leverage?

假設您安排了一個小時的會議。您如何提高會議的影響力？

Start by asking yourself whether the meeting is actually necessary. Can it be replaced by a simple Slack discussion so you can work on the next big product feature?
首先，問自己是否真的有必要開會。可以用一個簡單的Slack討論代替它，以便您可以使用下一個重要的產品功能嗎？
Shorten the meeting to half an hour so you’re forced to focus more on the subject, thereby eliminating the temptation to fill the full allotted time. Believe me, this sounds scary, but it actually works. The focus of the meeting will increase because of the extra pressure that time will put on you.
將會議縮短為半小時，這樣您就不得不將精力更多地集中在主題上，從而消除了在整個分配時間上都充滿誘惑的情況。相信我，這聽起來很嚇人，但實際上有效。由于時間的壓力會增加會議的重點。
Prepare an agenda of the key subjects you’d like to discuss. This will also increase your productivity, and make sure you focus on the right things.
準備您要討論的關鍵主題的議程。這也將提高您的生產率，并確保您專注于正確的事情。

What about development tasks?

那么開發任務呢？

Let’s say you’re spending way to much time by solving bugs that came from your production environment. Instead of just solving those bugs, try to think about how you can shorten the amount of time you’re busy solving them. For example, this can be fixed by shifting to a higher-leverage activity like increasing your test coverage percentage, or investing time in improving your deployment workflow. This is crucial when you’re developing a product at a high speed.

假設您通過解決生產環境中的錯誤而花費大量時間。不僅要解決這些錯誤，還應考慮如何減少正在忙于解決它們的時間。例如，可以通過轉移到更高杠桿率的活動(例如增加測試覆蓋率或花費時間來改善部署工作流程)來解決此問題。當您高速開發產品時，這至關重要。

When you successfully shorten the time required for an activity, you will spend that time more effectively.

成功縮短某項活動所需的時間后，您將可以更有效地利用該時間。

So the next time you sit down to handle a routine task, ask yourself how you might get more leverage in doing that each task time.

因此，下次您坐下來執行例行任務時，請問自己在每次任務時如何獲得更大的杠桿作用。

What is your secret for increasing your productivity? Let me know in the comments. Oh and every Friday I send out four high quality articles that are related to engineering and product development via my newsletter.

您提高生產率的秘訣是什么？在評論中讓我知道。哦，每個星期五，我都會通過通訊發布四篇與工程和產品開發相關的高質量文章。

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