Wrangling your stuff using Getting Things Done and the Pomodoro Technique. Given at the first London Presentation Camp.

1. Wrangling Your Stuff
Using GTD and The Pomodoro
Technique
Brent Snook

2. Who am I?
• Brent Snook
• I make software
• brent@fuglylogic.com
• brentsnook

3. Stuff

4. Getting Things Done

5. The Pomodoro
Technique

6. Capture

7. Capture
Capture

8. Open Loops

9. Open Loops

10. Open Loops

11. Open Loops

12. Buckets

13. Buckets

14. Schedule
Capture

15. Schedule
Capture Schedule

16. The Queue

17. The Queue

18. The Queue

19. Execute
Capture Schedule

20. Execute
Capture Schedule Execute

21. Focus

22. Focus

23. Complete Tasks One
Pomodoro at a Time
Finish tax return

24. Complete Tasks One
Pomodoro at a Time
Finish tax return

25. Complete Tasks One
Pomodoro at a Time
Finish tax return X X X

26. Complete Tasks One
Pomodoro at a Time
Finish tax return X X X

27. Complete Tasks One
Pomodoro at a Time
Finish tax return X X X X X

28. Complete Tasks One
Pomodoro at a Time
Finish tax return X X

29. Improve
Capture Schedule Execute

30. Improve
Capture Schedule Execute Improve

31. Analyse Trends
Total Pomodori
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10

32. Analyse Trends
Total Pomodori
40
35
30
25
20
15
10 > 6hrs of worked from
just starting
meetings home
5
0
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10

33. Reflection
Week
Day
Task

34. Activity Coverage
GTD Pomodoro
Capture Schedule Execute Improve

35. My Personal Context

36. My Work Context
My TODO
Review report X X X
Answer emails X
Misc. admin X
Story 254 - Send Meeting Summary
Success X X X X
Failure: No minutes X
Failure: No attendees

37. Resources
• Slideshare - http://www.slideshare.net/fuglylogic/
• GTD - http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-
Free-Productivity/dp/0142000280
• Pomodoro Technique - http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/
• Pomodoro Technique Illustrated - http://pragprog.com/titles/
snfocus/pomodoro-technique-illustrated
• Runway - http://www.runwayapp.com
• OSX Timer - http://pomodoro.ugolandini.com/

38. Images
• Tomato (Darren Hester) http://www.flickr.com/photos/darrenhester/3907495255/
• List - http://www.flickr.com/photos/wrote/2120667505/
• Vacuum cleaner - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gray_vacuum_cleaner.svg
• Twitter - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Twitter_logo.svg
• Envelope - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mail-envelope.png
• Chat bubbles - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chat_bubbles.svg
• Funnel - http://www.clker.com/clipart-26749.html
• Phone - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phone-apple-iphone.svg
• Coffee - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vector_cup_of_coffee.svg
• Apple - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_bitten.svg
• Cloud - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cartoon_cloud.svg