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So you've asked yourself again.

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Who's it for.

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And you've answered your own question and it's the people you're working with the ones you're sitting

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next to.

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Or maybe they're in a group chat.

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And now in today's day and age it saddens me how many communication channels there are because most

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of them encourage communicating too often.

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Now one thing you'll probably pick up is that unless it's an emergency now is often never the best time.

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So let's break this down projects you work on will have arbitrarily long timelines with many milestones

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plans and steps.

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And keep in mind the longer the time scale the worse humans are at dealing with them.

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Break it down days and weeks are much easier units of time to understand what are you working on this

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week.

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Write it down.

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Share it with the team.

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This not only consolidates your thinking it gives your team an opportunity to ask questions and offer

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advice.

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You'll find that short term progress often disappoints but long term progress surprises.

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So if you're working on a six month project you can break this down like starting from zero months.

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It might be hard to realize what's happening right at the end.

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So you break it down.

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You've got a four week month.

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You break one month into four weeks and then you break one week into five days.

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I don't know about you but when I try to think of something that's six months ahead I have a lot of

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trouble.

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But when I break it down to go what can I do today.

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That's going to add up to this week.

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And what can I do in this month that's going to add up to this first month here and then go.

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Same for the next one.

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Same to the third one.

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And then by the time I get to this end of six months I realize Wow I've actually come a long way and

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it's all from breaking it down into days and weeks now.

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The first part of this is what did you work on today.

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Now of course this is just one technique that you might want to try.

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But you could set a reminder for the end of each day and have it ask you what did you work on today.

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Your response doesn't have to be too long but it should be written down.

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You could use the following template.

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What I worked on today so one to three points on what you did.

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Maybe you could do what's working what's not working what could be improved and what I'm working on

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next.

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What's your next course of action based on the above and why what's holding you back.

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Remember that conversation want to have with your project manager or team lead or something like that.

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They want to be at a remove roadblocks for you so you can get back to doing the work your best at to

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coding projects relate.

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All of these back to the overall project goal that six month project pretty hard to understand in one

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go but day by day week by week sending these updates through to your team.

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This is really going to help out.

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So what you want to do is take note of the overlaps which questions arise.

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If a question gets asked more than three times it should be documented somewhere for others to reference

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and you'll see that some of the communication points for the people you're sitting with cross over with

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your project manager just like we've discussed before.

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Now of course I trust you're smart enough to figure out when the things that you're communicating with

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your teammates also need to be communicated with your project managers and seniors.

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It's gonna be hard to put in any of these communication techniques with people on your team if you don't

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actually have a job or aren't on a team yet.

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So in the next video we'll look at what to do before you have a job.