Personal Productivity Patterns (2015-11-13)

Personal Productivity Patterns
— TYPO3 East Europe 2015

Transcript

1. Personal Productivity Patterns Stefan Rotsch
2. I’m a software developing photography loving pipe organ playing dad of 2 wonderful kids
3. …and I’m happily working at
4. Introduction
5. WHY should you care?
6. Product Backlog User Story Task Looking beyond Scrum and Kanban
7. Productive individuals form productive teams
8. Personal productivity seems to be a topic
9. The essence of personal productivity Capture Decide
10. “Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.” ― David Allen
11. Capturing Information
12. Gocce D'Acqua (Water Drops) by Dirklaudio (CC BY)
13. How information enters our lives
14. Juliet by Colleen A. Bryant (CC BY)
15. Manage your inboxes Physical and virtual As many as required, as less as possible Process regularly
16. Engineering plans storage, 2001 by Seattle Municipal Archives (CC BY)
17. The logical, trusted system Lists Calendar Storage
18. “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
19. Taking Decisions
20. The GTD decision path Is it actionable? Yes No Do Delegate Defer Delete Incubate Reference
21. What is the next action?
22. Stirling Point Signpost, Bluff by studio tdes (CC BY)
23. “If you put off everything 'till you're sure of it, you'll get nothing done.” — Norman Vincent Peale
24. Day Planning
25. what's up tomorrow? by Rosmarie Voegtli (CC BY)
26. Planning your day Highest priority first Establish routines Group similar tasks Remove distractions
27. Busy day by Daniel Oines (CC BY)
28. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” — Benjamin Franklin
29. Managing Interruptions
30. “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.
31. “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.
32. Tunnel vision by Jeremy Keith (CC BY)
33. Managing interruptions Focus time Say No / Postpone Switch tasks Keep an Anti-ToDo list
34. “First, let me finish. Then interrupt.” — Brian Spellman
35. Reviewing Progress
36. Read/Review by Sebastien Wiertz (CC BY)
37. Regularly review your own work Have everything covered Follow up Stay up to date Check goals
38. “You can only feel good about what you're not doing when you know what you're not doing.” — David Allen
39. Summary
40. You can't do anything
41. Filter out early what is not important to you
42. Expect the unexpected
43. Be OK with imperfection
44. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” — Bruce Lee
45. @ritschie
46. Thank you.