Hot Spots

Hot Spots
J.D. Meier
How To See the Forest from the Trees

Agenda
What are Hot Spots
Why use Hot Spots
How to use Hot Spots

The Problem
Where do you need to spend your time?
What do you need to focus on?
You have limited time and energy to spend. You need to spend it wisely.

Hot Spots
Key Concepts
Imagine your life as a heat map with Hot Spots.
Hot Spots are the key investment areas or choice points that need your attention.
Each Hot Spot can represent pain or opportunity or pleasure.
Hot spots are a simple metaphor for thinking about what’s important. Hot Spots are areas of focus.

Hot Spots as Your Portfolio Think of your life as an investment portfolio or a heat map.

Why Hot Spots
Key Benefits
They give you a simple lens for looking at your life.
They help you set boundaries.
They help you focus and prioritize.
They help you balance your life.
Hot Spots provide a simple way to invest your time and energy across significant areas of your life. By looking at your life in terms of a heat map of pain, pleasure, and opportunity, you can better invest your time and energy to improve your results.

How To Use Hot Spots
You can use hot spots several ways:
Achieve work-life balance - set boundaries in terms of how much time or energy you spend in a given area of your life. You can set minimums or maximums.
Ask better questions - Ask key questions about significant areas of your life using Hot Spots as a lens.
Focal points for improvement - Use hot spots as focal points to improve. For example, you can find and test best practices for a given area of your life.
Analyze your time and energy - Analyze your investment of time and energy across your portfolio of Hot Spots.
See the forest from the trees. Balance and focus your life.

Key Take Aways
Think of your life as a portfolio or heat map.
Use Hot Spots to invest your time and energy.
Set minimums and maximums in terms of time or energy in your hot spots.
Achieve work-life balance by investing across your hot spots.

Call to Action
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About J.D. Meier
J.D. Meier …
Principal Program Manager on the Microsoft patterns & practices team
Focus - Software Development, Project Management, and Effectiveness
Research, author, run teams, and ship stuff
10+ years deliberate practice in “best practices”
750+ software architecture and design reviews
As a hobby and passion, I study success across Microsoft up and down the chain.
Key Projects (Blue Books and Software)
Blue Books for Microsoft (Technical Books)
Application Architecture Guide 2.0
Improving Web Services Security (The WCF Security Guide)
Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications
Team Development with VSTS/TFS (The TFS Guide)
patterns & practices Security Engineering
Improving Web Application Security (Threats and Countermeasures)
Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability
Building Secure ASP.NET Applications (The first Microsoft “Blue Book”)
Software / Tools
Guidance Explorer (“ITunes for Knowledge”)
Practices Checker (“Building Codes Inspector for Software Best Practices”)
Blogs
J.D. Meier on MSDN (My Microsoft Blog): http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier
Sources of Insight (My Effectiveness Blog) - http://SourcesOfInsight.com
Guidance Explorer

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