• 25 minutes is called “one pomodoro.”
  • By measurement
    • How many pomodoros can I do in a day?
    • How many pomodoros can a certain task be done?
    • Improve estimating capabilities
  • Switching perspectives
    • Lion’s hat, King’s hat, Clown’s hat
    • I was digging through the source code of some complex open source software.
    • It was going to take some time, but it was going to achieve its goal.
    • Pomodoro finished, I got up, went to the bathroom, got a glass of water and returned to my seat.
    • At that moment, an idea suddenly struck me. A certain functionality that the software provides is essentially something that should be implemented after what we are trying to do now is realized. So, if we delve into the implementation of that functionality, isn’t there already something similar to what we are now trying to create?
    • The next pomodoro was given to that survey and found, as expected, that it was so.
    • I implemented the use of it in that next pomodoro and the problem was successfully solved.

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:50:24 I bought a copy of “Agile Time Management: An Introduction to the Pomodoro Technique”.

Increased complexity decreases motivation. p.29 Takes a long time to switch from one to the other. Tend to underestimate the effort required for a single task - Perfectionism gets in the way of action. # Bad perfectionism - Fear of failure causes emotional distress.

Flow state, not suited to seeing the whole picture. Set the timer, come back and put on the Strategic Thinking Hat.

Stages of the Pomodoro Technique

  • planning
    • Retrieve the activity from the backlog and write it in today’s TODO
  • tracking (e.g. in computer graphic)
    • Execute and measure
    • 1 Pomodoro for 25 minutes (example)
  • recording
  • processing
  • visualize

Deming Shughart Cycle PDCA cycle

Long TODO list Questioning the ability to make choices

  • Clown hat: Rest
  • Lion’s hat: Focus
  • Strategy hat: Determine what needs to be done for the next iteration

internal interrupt

If 25 minutes doesn’t work, let’s shorten the pomodoro time first. p. 118

Methods for external interrupts

  • I’ll let them know I’m in the middle of something else.

  • Negotiate another date.

  • make an excuse for doing something

  • I’ll call you back.

  • Drum Buffer Rope ( constraint theory ) Determine the appropriate length of the list. How many can you do in a day x how many days you want to have

Length of breaks

  • Mixing short and long breaks lacks motivation to start the timer

p.154 Preference Match A method of repeating a tournament as many times as you want to take it.


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