Personal productivity

Every now and then I think about what I want to achieve, what I should continue to do and what I should stop, and finally how to turn that into daily work.

Scott Hanselman has been blogging since forever and has a number of gems which you will find referenced from this blog.

He also has a very realistic way of exlaining his approach.

One of the essential pieces is his interpretation of what Eisenhower also seemed to do to manage time:

• Do (do it yourself now)
• Schedule (do it yourself at a planned datetime)
• Delegate (Ask someone else to do it)
• Eliminate (Do not do it)

They are in a matrix or quadrant, where the first two are important, and the first and third are urgent. If you take away anything, let it be this.

Also since forever I have been following and using the work of JD Meier. His agile results should be mandatory for everyone in technology.

Actually, mentioning them both in this post makes me see the similarities, which shouldn’t be surprised but I just hadn’t noticed before.

Thanks for reading! :-)