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Personal Productivity Patterns (2015-11-13)
Personal Productivity Patterns
— TYPO3 East Europe 2015
Stefan Rotsch
November 13, 2015
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Transcript
Personal Productivity Patterns Stefan Rotsch
I’m a software developing photography loving pipe organ playing dad
of 2 wonderful kids
…and I’m happily working at
Introduction
WHY should you care?
Product Backlog User Story Task Looking beyond Scrum and Kanban
Productive individuals form productive teams
Personal productivity seems to be a topic
The essence of personal productivity Capture Decide
“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.” ―
David Allen
Capturing Information
Gocce D'Acqua (Water Drops) by Dirklaudio (CC BY)
How information enters our lives
Juliet by Colleen A. Bryant (CC BY)
Manage your inboxes Physical and virtual As many as required,
as less as possible Process regularly
Engineering plans storage, 2001 by Seattle Municipal Archives (CC BY)
The logical, trusted system Lists Calendar Storage
“Give yourself permission to capture and express any idea, then
later figure out how it fits in and what to do with it” ― David Allen
Taking Decisions
The GTD decision path Is it actionable? Yes No Do
Delegate Defer Delete Incubate Reference
What is the next action?
Stirling Point Signpost, Bluff by studio tdes (CC BY)
“If you put off everything 'till you're sure of it,
you'll get nothing done.” — Norman Vincent Peale
Day Planning
what's up tomorrow? by Rosmarie Voegtli (CC BY)
Planning your day Highest priority first Establish routines Group similar
tasks Remove distractions
Busy day by Daniel Oines (CC BY)
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” —
Benjamin Franklin
Managing Interruptions
“On average, it took employees 25 minutes to return to
their initial task”* * Thompson, Clive: Meet the Life Hackers. New York Times, 2005/10/16.
“Each employee spent only 11 minutes on any given project
before being interrupted”* * Thompson, Clive: Meet the Life Hackers. New York Times, 2005/10/16.
Tunnel vision by Jeremy Keith (CC BY)
Managing interruptions Focus time Say No / Postpone Switch tasks
Keep an Anti-ToDo list
“First, let me finish. Then interrupt.” — Brian Spellman
Reviewing Progress
Read/Review by Sebastien Wiertz (CC BY)
Regularly review your own work Have everything covered Follow up
Stay up to date Check goals
“You can only feel good about what you're not doing
when you know what you're not doing.” — David Allen
Summary
You can't do anything
Filter out early what is not important to you
Expect the unexpected
Be OK with imperfection
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing,
you’ll never get it done.” — Bruce Lee
@ritschie
Thank you.