SSW Rules/Communication/Rules to Better Email/Do you put the estimation at the bottom of the email when sending a task to self ?
Rule #81
Do you put the estimation at the bottom of the email when sending a task to self ?
  v4.0 Posted at 20/10/2010 7:55 PM by system
If you are asked to do some work, at first you should send yourself a task and CC the one who asks you to do the task (and other related people ). When you draft this email, please put an estimation at the bottom, so every knows how much you need to finish this task.

The estimation is more important if the task is from clients. A client cares about the time more than others because he has to pay for having this task done. Thus, he will be happier to see a notification with an estimation. With this estimation, he can stop you easily if he thinks the time is a bit more than excepted. No client would like to know it takes a lot of time to complete this task without being informed of this in advance.

Send a task to self without an estimation
Figure: Bad Example - Send a task to self without an estimation
Send a task to self with an estimation
Figure: Good Example - Send a task to self with an estimation
 

 

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