Personal Productivity Patterns (2016-04-21)

Personal Productivity Patterns
— AOEconf 2016

Transcript

2. Personal Productivity Patterns Stefan Rotsch
3. Introduction
4. Why should you care?
5. Product Backlog User Story Task Looking beyond Scrum and Kanban
6. Productive individuals form productive teams
7. Personal productivity seems to be a topic
8. Capture Decide The essence of personal productivity
9. Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. ― David Allen »
10. Capturing Information
11. Gocce D'Acqua (Water Drops) by Dirklaudio (CC BY)
12. How information enters our lives
13. Juliet by Colleen A. Bryant (CC BY)
14. Physical and virtual As many as required, as few as possible Process regularly Manage your inboxes
15. Engineering plans storage, 2001 by Seattle Municipal Archives (CC BY)
16. Lists Calendar Storage The logical, trusted system
17. 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 »
18. Making Decisions
19. Is it actionable? Yes Do Delegate Defer Delete Store The GTD decision path Incubate No
20. What is the next action?
21. Stirling Point Signpost, Bluff by studio tdes (CC BY)
22. If you put off everything 'till you're sure of it, you'll get nothing done. — Norman Vincent Peale »
23. Day Planning
24. what's up tomorrow? by Rosmarie Voegtli (CC BY)
25. Highest priority first Establish routines Group similar tasks Remove distractions Planning your day
26. Busy day by Daniel Oines (CC BY)
27. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. — Benjamin Franklin »
28. Managing Interruptions
29. Thompson, Clive: Meet the Life Hackers. New York Times, 16.10.2005. »On average, it took employees 25 minutes to return to their initial task«
30. »Each employee spent only 11 minutes on any given project before being interrupted« Thompson, Clive: Meet the Life Hackers. New York Times, 16.10.2005.
31. Tunnel vision by Jeremy Keith (CC BY)
32. Focus time Say No / Postpone Switch tasks Keep an Anti-ToDo list Managing interruptions
33. First, let me finish. Then interrupt. — Brian Spellman »
34. Reviewing Progress
35. Read/Review by Sebastien Wiertz (CC BY)
36. Have everything covered Follow up Stay up to date Check goals Regularly review your own work
37. You can only feel good about what you're not doing when you know what you're not doing. — David Allen »
38. Summary
39. You can do anything, but not everything.
40. Filter out early what is not important for you.
41. Expect the unexpected.
42. Be OK with imperfection.
43. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. — Bruce Lee »
44. Questions?
45. Thank you.