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Peter Lawrence

Co-host of The SDG Podcast, the podcast of employee-owned technology consulting firm Solution Design Group, where he discusses AI, data, and workplace topics.

Sep 21, 2026

30:34
Or
30:34
I write down more information about things if I'm not working in JIRA.
30:39
That has been the only way that I've ever been able to do a status report successfully every week is to have that constant capture during the day to say, this is what I'm working on.
30:56
This is what I'm doing.
30:57
Hey, look, now I've got stuff to put in my status report because I know what I was working on.
31:01
I don't have to think back to Monday and go, what did I do on Monday? I don't even remember.
31:05
I remember getting coffee and there were donuts.
34:54
I think they're the arbiter of, hey, do we need to do more about this? But just ask around, right?
5:14
... you realize you really need good onboarding when you bring new people on, but you forget to do the work for the next time, and then immediately it becomes something nobody wants to put the effort into doing, is what I've kind of seen frequently, and am guilty of as well.
5:30
Right.
5:30
And I've used wikis in that case.
5:33
Um, like, "Hey, you're the new guy.
5:36
You're gonna help us create the wiki for what we need to remember for the next new guy because if we don't, e- everything we fail you on, we're gonna write that down in the wiki, and we're gonna write down how we solved it and what we had to do because it's gonna happen again if we don't." And, uh, and yeah, it's, it's been...
5:56
'Cause you're right.
5:57
Like, there are times where a group might not onboard someone for a year or two.

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27:06
Yeah.

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