Use of Time Management Utilities

Reasons for use of different Time Management Services and Techniques

Stakeholders: 

Busy Individuals, Friends, Coworkers, Employees, Students, Superiors, Subordinates, Business Ownership.

Objectives:

Identify reasons for the use of certain time management techniques or services to get to the center of why busy individuals find themselves unable to correctly organize their thoughts and responsibilities in order to build a services that caters to the real needs of these same people, so that they will continue to use the service rather than falling back into old habits.

Research Questions:

Why do those studied use certain techniques or services?

What makes time management difficult?

What features would ease the use of time management software?

Why do those studied not use certain software or services to help with time management?

Research Methods:

Identify what techniques, services, or lack thereof participants currently use.

Find themes or common occurrences and identify similarities.

Ask participants what they like about the time management system they currently use.

Ask participants what they would improve about their current time management system.

Ask participants what their ideal services would be like.

Explore what issues their past time management systems have had.

Identify reasons for lack of use for certain products or services.