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Working from home – is this for you?

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Interview with Jürgen Hummel

Are you curious about how working from home works?
How can you know if this is the right set-up for you in general?
What are the advantages and disadvantages when working from home?
What is a good set-up when having a home office?

The COVID-19 outbreak forces many of us to work from home. But even before this, working from home became a growing trend, most especially at the moment. This interview will help you understand if this is something for you or not, and how you can make it happen, have fun with it, and get a better balance of your working time and other things.

In this episode, Jürgen and I discuss the following points:

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The data ops manifesto from a data science perspective

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Interview with Christopher Bergh

Do you feel you’re working like a firefighter?

Do you have the perception, you’re solving the same problems over and over?

Do you worry about ever changing requests from your business partners?

Then you are not alone – not even alone in the pharma world.

In today’s episode, we will talk about the data ops manifesto which addresses such problems. There are actually a couple of such manifestos out there such as the agile manifesto or the dev ops manifesto. These sound similar to Demings 14 principles outlined in his “out of the crisis” publication.

The data ops manifesto can be found here and lists these 18 points – some of which are discussed in more detail in this episode:

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How to leverage time-boxing to reduce overwhelm being a statistician

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Batch processing and scheduling tasks to fight procrastination

Do you know how to make a good to-do list?
Do you know how to set priorities versus the time it takes?
Do you have a problem with over-committing?

One of the most effective skills you can have in life is effective time management. According to Michael Hyatt: “What gets scheduled gets done. ” If you’re not managing your time well, there’s no way you’re going to reach your goals at work and the life outside of it.

Marc Zao-Sanders mentions time boxing as the number 1 tool for productivity among 100 tips.

In today’s episode, we discuss time boxing and batch processing. We also discuss how these following points work:

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What you need to know before you try to increase productivity

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Do you often find your workday spiraling out of control?
Do you want to be more productive than you yesterday?
Do you want to know how to improve your skill set and work performance?
Do you start each day with a plan, but soon become distracted and procrastinating?

You are not alone. Sometimes, it’s easier to wait for someone else to tell you what things you should work on rather than to assess yourself.

Focusing on continually improving your skill set will boost your confidence and help you become the best version of yourself.

In today’s episode, Benjamin and I discuss what you need to know to increase productivity:

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My story of the Effective Statistician and what you can learn from it

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Are you curious about why and how I started The Effective Statistician?
What’s in it for you?
Why I’m passionate about it?

It all started when I became a new supervisor and had my first direct reports and I thought I really needed to learn about supervisory skills but I had very limited time. I found out that podcasts really help to learn while I commute to work – it’s effective.

In this podcast, you can learn a lot from the following:

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Questions to ask yourself before starting a new project

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I recently talked to a statistician, that initiated a small company internal group of statisticians to drive forward methodological innovation projects. While this surely will help the individuals to learn more about statistical methods, it was less clear, why and on which topics the group should focus their activities on.

While most of our day-to-day activities consists of running clinical studies, submissions and directly related work, we also engage in such innovation work streams or process improvement working groups and other such activities.

Today, we’re giving you advice on how to best pick the right projects to work on as you usually have some influence on this.

Specifically we cover the following questions, you should ask yourself first:

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The podcast is run in association with PSI