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====== How Can We Use Scrum and Agile Principles to Increase Personal Effectiveness? | ====== How Can We Use Scrum and Agile Principles to Increase Personal Effectiveness? | ||
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Most of us, when asked, would like to be more effective. Most of us would say we are overloaded, too busy and so feel less than effective. We seem to have too much to do and no easy way of digging ourselves out of the hole. | Most of us, when asked, would like to be more effective. Most of us would say we are overloaded, too busy and so feel less than effective. We seem to have too much to do and no easy way of digging ourselves out of the hole. | ||
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I have found that you can apply Scrum principles to your personal life to become more effective. The result for me is that I know what I am doing and why, I can respond at a good pace to anything coming in and I have a sustainable workload. Most importantly I feel that I am effective (hopefully my customers have the same view:-)) contributing more to their organization than I would otherwise. I've spoken to many people about this issue and the approach I've taken, especially about the email problem, but the reality is that it took a bunch of experiments to determine something that worked for me, and so it took me a long time to get there. | I have found that you can apply Scrum principles to your personal life to become more effective. The result for me is that I know what I am doing and why, I can respond at a good pace to anything coming in and I have a sustainable workload. Most importantly I feel that I am effective (hopefully my customers have the same view:-)) contributing more to their organization than I would otherwise. I've spoken to many people about this issue and the approach I've taken, especially about the email problem, but the reality is that it took a bunch of experiments to determine something that worked for me, and so it took me a long time to get there. | ||
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The good news is that you can probably get there faster. The best summary of how you can become more effective that I have read is in the mini-book [[http:// | The good news is that you can probably get there faster. The best summary of how you can become more effective that I have read is in the mini-book [[http:// | ||
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The book turns out to be a bit of a sales pitch for a tool he is developing but I don't think that matters. The reality is that I have used the ideas here – the personal backlog prioritization to understand what to do, "mind maps" to brainstorm ideas, visualizing my workflow especially with regard to email so that I get it under control, using the Pomodoro Technique to help focus when I need focus time, personal retrospectives to look back on what I've been doing and so on. Your understanding of Scrum, agile and lean will make the ideas behind this seem self–evident, | The book turns out to be a bit of a sales pitch for a tool he is developing but I don't think that matters. The reality is that I have used the ideas here – the personal backlog prioritization to understand what to do, "mind maps" to brainstorm ideas, visualizing my workflow especially with regard to email so that I get it under control, using the Pomodoro Technique to help focus when I need focus time, personal retrospectives to look back on what I've been doing and so on. Your understanding of Scrum, agile and lean will make the ideas behind this seem self–evident, | ||
- | It does require that you step back a bit from the day-to-day hassles of work, but I the benefits will outweigh any downside. | + | It does require that you step back a bit from the day-to-day hassles of work, but the benefits will outweigh any downside. |
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+ | But I didn’t start that way. I needed to set things up so that I didn't get interrupted by email all the time. This meant two things: | ||
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+ | I started fairly simply to address both of these. For | ||
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+ | - A number of these were only in the queue because I needed to come back to them at some future date. So I got these out of the inbox by dragging them into tasks (using Outlook) and setting a date when I look at it again. This meant my daily planning now also included a quick glance at the task list for the day. | ||
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+ | - And a final thing I noticed was that my filing system was ridiculous – a massive hierarchy. Problem was that I would often need to file things in two or more ways (by customer, by person, by activity) and so not only was it hard to file anything, it was also hard to find anything. But then I discovered that “search” worked pretty well so now I have only two categories “business” and “personal” and that works pretty well. | ||
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+ | In the end it took me about 6 months and I was below 50 on a regular basis. Getting to 10 was easy from there. | ||
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+ | * [[it_s_not_just_the_meeting|It' | ||
+ | * Write-up on the basics http:// | ||
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