W marcowym numerze Think Tank Magazine ukaże się mój artykuł poświęcony złej wielozadaniowości (“bad multitasking”) i temu, jak z nią walczyć w praktyce.
W ramach przygotowania do tej publikacji, w przyszły wtorek, 22 lutego 2011, odbędzie się pod egidą Think Tank Magazine dyskusja z moim udziałem poświęcona właśnie tematyce złej wielozadaniowości.
Dyskusja zacznie się o 9:00 i potrwa do 10:30. Po krótkiej prezentacji przewidziana jest obszerna sesja pytań i odpowiedzi. Spotkanie poprowadzi red. Krzysztof Piątek z Think Tank Magazine. Spotkanie odbędzie się w siedzibie PKKP Lewiatan przy ul. Klonowej 6 w Warszawie.
Tematyka jest z pogranicza łańcucha krytycznego, Getting Things Done i kanbanu. Serdecznie zapraszam do odwiedzenia strony http://thinktankmagazine.pl, na której znajdziecie więcej informacji nt. tego spotkania.
Do zobaczenia w przyszły wtorek!
MKO
@1 year ago with 4 notes
#Think Tank Magazine #bad multitasking #kanban #critical chain #gtd
There are only two real rules with personal kanban:
Visualize your work
Limit your work-in-progress
@2 years ago
#personal kanban #gtd #toc
Software to help you manage email overload (Click me!) 
David Allen, the creator of the popular Getting Things Done productivity system (GTD), divided the process of managing all the inputs we receive into the five stages of workflow:
- COLLECT all the bits and pieces of input (“stuff”) in a small number of trusted containers.
- PROCESS each piece of input to extract meaning and derive action items from it.
- ORGANIZE the outcomes of the previous step for easy, contextual retrieval.
- DO the actions you’ve identified.
- REVIEV the system on a regular basis to keep it relevant and up-to-date.
For the system to provide value, the INBOXes must be regularly (daily) processes to zero (cf. Merlin Mann’s popular “Inbox Zero” concept).
However, real-life applications of GTD principles are often hampered by a firehose volume of input, which makes it virtually impossible to keep up with it via regular in-to-zero processing. A particular case in point is email — to the point of many people declaring “email bankrupcy” (“DMZ”).
Enter the promise of technology. Andrew Faulring of Carnegie Mellon University came up with a system to “help tame out-of-control inboxes”, March 6 issue of New Scientist reports (http://bit.ly/d4uWBY). The system, called Reflective Agents with Distributed Adaptive Reasoning (RADAR) learns from it’s interaction with the user which emails are more important and orders them by priority, a process that might be likened to reverse spam filtering. This ensures that essential info doesn’t get lost in the background noise inhabiting your inbox, like the ubiquitous relic microwave bacground if the universe.
Yours truly had no way to test the system, so far relying on granting my assistant access to my Google Apps email. I only wish Google implemented this reverse spam idea in their product.
Google-style acquisition seems unlikely, as the project is funded by DARPA.
Until Google develops their own system, DON’T email me at marek dot kowalczyk at mandarine dot pl as your message will probably get ignored anyway in the 500+ unread items in my inbox that have accumulated since my most recent (second) email bancrupcy declaration.
@2 years ago with 1 note
#TOC, #GTD #david allen #Email #link
So far, in my quest for “mind like water”, I have tried (in that order):
- Plain-text with separate files for each context with Textmate
- OmniFocus
- Backpack
Each of them has their pros and cons but none of them really survived contact with my fast-moving, messy reality (mind?). It mighty be a good subject for another post to try to comment on my experience with those tools.
Having tried all three, I came up with the following criteria for my GTD system:
- fast to input, edit and retrieve information
- flexible to deal with a continuously evolving and largely unpredictable structure of my system
- future-proof
- encompassing all horizons of focus, not just runway (next actions) and 10.000 ft (projects)
- printable/portable
- facilitate keeping work-in-process at a low level — to help me avoid bad multitasking, which eats me alive
The following metaphor nudged me in plain text direction: The contents of my system is like software I’ve written to run myself or a script I, the screenwriter wrote for me, the actor, to play my life. To write software or edit a script, you need a text editor. And when it comes to text editors, nothing beats VIM, designed specifically for speed.
Additional sources of inspiration have also been:
So my current setup is as follows, by phases of workflow management.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
@2 years ago
#GTD #Vim
21-22 maja (czwartek-piątek) będę prowadził warsztaty otwarte w ramach Modułowego Programu Zarządzania Projektami MANDARINE & EY.
Są dwa ciekawe tematy:
Finanse w projekcie — w ujęciu zarówno tradycyjnym, jak i rachunkowości przerobowej, m.in. pojęcie flush projektu.
GTD — Getting Things Done Davida Allena — jako metoda zarządzania realizacją zadań w projekcie i mikroprojektów. Dla mnie to była czysta rewelacja i stosuję nabożnie na co dzień.
Dla obu tematów jest to premiera, więc zapraszam również absolwentów poprzednich edycji EY, absolwentów WSB i wszystkich zainteresowanych.
Chętnie odpowiem na Wasze pytania pod mailem:
marek kropka kowalczyk mapła mandarine kropka pl
(przepraszam za taki sposób pisania, ale to zabezpieczenie przed botami i spamerami).
@3 years ago
#TOC #GTD #EY #David Allen #Szkolenie