Yes - so I gather but as a peripheral member of that community, it had completely passed me by up until now. One of the things that I liked about it from an initial scan was the fact that he draws on the work of a range of other interesting people one of whom is Tom Gilb who, it could be argued, originated many of the agile concepts 15 years before they became fashionable and who has been one of my guiding lights since the mid 1980's. Are you using MLO in a Pomodoro sort of way? If so, I would be really interested to hear how.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Levison Sent: 13 November 2009 1:41 a To: [email protected] Subject: [MLO] Re: The Pomodoro Technique 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 <http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3543/3833840021_3bd1777182_o.jpg> Mark Levison | Founder <http://theagileconsortium.com/> and Consultant - TheAgileConsortium | 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 <http://www.notesfromatooluser.com/2009/06/agile-mailing-lists.html%20> Mailing Lists a Survey, Do <http://www.notesfromatooluser.com/2009/01/do-you-suspect-you-have-a-less-th an-productive-person-on-your-team.html> You Suspect You Have a Less than Productive Person on Your Team? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
