I and much of the Agile Software Development community have been using it for years.
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Richard C <[email protected]> wrote: > > Has anybody come across this time management technique. It looks > really interesting and aligns with some stuff I have been trying to do > with MLO - namely short term planning (ie: for the next few days) > which GTD and other time management just don't seem to address (but I > am not an expert) > > The website is here http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/ > > I think there are any featues in MLO that could be used to work with > this technique (or visa versa). However, the key thing that is > missing from MLO is a better mechanism for recording estimated time > and for adding up time. > > The Pomodoro technique uses 'Pomodoros' as its unit of effort > estimation and time measurement which are half hour blocks (go to the > website to find out why he calls them pomodoros) For each > significant task, you estimate how many of these time blocks it will > take to complete (eg this is a 4 Pomodoro task) and you then add up > the total number of Pomodoros you have for the task that you have > planned for the day and compare this to the number that you know you > are able to complete in a day. > > So if was possible to calibrate the Task Effort slider using numbers > (eg 1, 2, 3, etc) and if you could then show the total of the Task > Effort for all the tasks in a group (eg a day), then this would really > help with planning. > > And I feel sure that many of the other features of the technique could > also be supported by MLO - either as is, or with some relatively minor > enhancements which would (hint) potentially open up a new market for > MLO (over 6500 people downloaded the book in one month). > > Just for the record: I have no relationship with the people other > than the fact that it looks as if it addresses areas which I have yet > to see any other technique address > > Richard > > > *Mark Levison* | Founder and Consultant - TheAgileConsortium<http://theagileconsortium.com/>| Agile Editor @ InfoQ <http://www.infoq.com/about.jsp> Blog <http://www.notesfromatooluser.com/> | Twitter<http://twitter.com/mlevison>| Office: (613) 761-9821 Recent Entries: Agile Mailing Lists a Survey<http://www.notesfromatooluser.com/2009/06/agile-mailing-lists.html%20>, Do You Suspect You Have a Less than Productive Person on Your Team?<http://www.notesfromatooluser.com/2009/01/do-you-suspect-you-have-a-less-than-productive-person-on-your-team.html> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
