How to achieve efficiency and happiness combining methodologies by Andris Bariss

Management By Objectives, Getting Things Done, Agile Results, Strengths Based Development, Positive Psychology etc. A lot of methodologies and each of them provides ideas and concepts, fewer - concrete steps and criteria to measure achievements.

Let's talk about how to better understand and achieve our goals, how to focus and enjoy our daily work and how make it all together to help our development as professionals and our feeling of happiness by using not one, but combining of those methodologies. What exact steps to make and what tools come handy (some demonstration and comparison also).

Real cases will be shown to demonstrate exactly why and how each part can work for everyone of us.

Session and topic is for you, if you:
- sometimes feel panic because of overload or just feel overloaded
- miss feeling of development as professional
- miss the feeling of happiness, even if looks like everything is going fine

As result of this session will be no miracle cure, but maybe some ideas to help you to get in more control of your life and happiness.

Transcript

1. How to achieve efficiency
   and happiness combining
   methodologies
   by Andris Bariss
   for Agile Day Riga 2014
   

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2. Andris Bariss
   UX and Usability expert
   Analyst at Idea Port Riga
   IIBA Latvia board member
   http://lv.linkedin.com/in/andrisbariss
   

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3. What and why I want
   ● achieve more because I want it
   ● feel good/better because it’s in the nature of people
   Solution: focus on:
   ● get more done
   ● my emotional well-being
   

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4. How to get more done?
   Work more
   vs
   Be more efficient today’s topic
   

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5. Popular methodologies
   To achieve:
   ● Agile
   ● GTD
   ● Agile results
   ● Asian efficiency
   ● Lean
   ● Kanban
   ● Appreciate inquire
   To enjoy:
   ● Positive psychology
   ● Strength based
   development
   ● Appreciate inquire
   

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6. Covered and not by methodologies
   For efficiency:
   just to have results
   For emotional well-being:
   just how to feel fine
   Uncovered questions:
   How to enjoy what I’m doing anyway?
   What are emotionally great in my activities?
   

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7. Inner emotional competition
   Must
   vs
   Want
   Don’t compete
   

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8. ● Effective, but not at any cost
   ● Methodology has to be adopted
   ● Effectiveness ≠ Emotional well-being
   Emotional well-being is everything
   Few facts and conclusions
   

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9. Steps of getting more - goals
   Make following lists:
   ● What I’m good at?
   ● What I want?
   ● Measurements of what I want
   

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10. …criteria of joy
    List:
    ● My moments of joy (what I was doing)
    ● Test them - will it be joyful again
    ● Add new moments of joy
    Notice: having partner - helps
    

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11. ...concurrency and risks
    Analyse my two lists of “To achieve” and “To
    enjoy”.
    1. Mark what makes you feel good in during
    process of trying to achieve
    2. Reconsider goals don’t making me feel good
    3. Add goals for having joy
    

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12. ...set priorities
    ● Set levels of goals (lifetime, 5 years, 2 years
    etc)
    ● Set priorities for goals
    ● Plan activities - set tasks
    * Remember to make balance of time between
    effort and joy.
    

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13. ...catch opportunity for joy
    1. Act
    2. Make pause for feeling of joy
    3. Remind myself last achievements
    4. Make retrospectives
    5. Adjust plans
    

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14. Tools
    To start with Paper and pen
    Task planning Omnifocus
    Any.Do
    Asana
    Notes Evernote
    Microsoft OneNote
    Book “How of happiness” by Sonja Lyubomirsky
    

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15. Let’s rock!
    Questions?
    http://lv.linkedin.com/in/andrisbariss
    andris.bariss@ipr.lv
    

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