I have a problem dealing with GTD and corporate terminology
I know I don't have enough projects on my list, and I even know why. I was looking at my next actions list this morning, and there was an entry on it from yesterday that I realized was project in GTD terminology. There are several steps, that were clearly going to take a couple of days, and at least three people (not all at once!). Project, right?
Except that to my employer this item is a task that is a small part of a project. By the rules, for something to be considered a project at work, it has to be estimated to take a certain minimum number of hours. A task takes somewhere between 20-40 hours, and anything smaller than that is not worth tracking.
I have to use the corporate speak to be understood around the office, and I am trying to stop putting things on my Next Actions list that are bigger than Actions.
Does anyone else have this kind of problem?