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 Saturday, June 25, 2005

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Zero Email Bounce

Getting Things Done teaches you that you should have zero messages in the inbox. I was up in Redmond this past week and was thinking about my zen like experience with mail now, and that realistically I get to zero messages one or two times this week. But I do that each week.

At Microsoft we have a term, Zero Bug Bounce (ZBB) which is the milestone at which you get to Zero bugs older than n days. Some times it's a week, sometimes 24 hours. But you do that for a few weeks till you cut your Release Candidate build. It seems I wasn't the first to consider the term ZEB for email, but I've adopted it as a term for the goal that I try and attain each work day.

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Posted Sunday, June 26, 2005    Permalink    Comments [4]  View blog reactions

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Sunday, June 26, 2005 8:46:49 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Trackbacks didn't work, so I'm trying the old-fashioned approach :) Commentary here: http://blogs.msdn.com/jonathanh/archive/2005/06/25/432744.aspx
Jonathan Hardwick
Friday, July 01, 2005 9:23:03 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Actually, I believe ZEB it comes from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670899240/qid=1120281754/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-3667172-6592625?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Mikhail Arkhipov
Friday, August 12, 2005 10:12:16 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
If you treat your inbox as a task list - which is how I work - then that would mean you have nothing left to do!

See Rule #2 http://www.ssw.com.au/SSW/Standards/Rules/RulesToBetterEmail.aspx

So is it really possible?

Adam
Inbox to zero is unattainable
Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:45:56 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
I don't use my inbox as my task list. I use my task list for that!
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