This category includes posts that are related to my current or a former line of work, or specific to professional interests in general, such as Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology.
It sure has been a busy New Year so far. January was especially hectic as we started to pack for our move to North Carolina in a few weeks. In addition to this, I headed down to Orlando to get my Scrum Product Owner certification, which involved a two-day course in managing product development in…
Inarguably, one of the most important pieces of the GTD methodology for time and task management is the weekly review. This critical ritual involves the practitioner ensuring that inboxes are emptied, reviewing his or her lists and making necessary adjustments to projects and tasks so that contexts, priorities, next actions and other elements are accurate. All…
I’ve been using OmniFocus for about a year now and it seems like the right time to post a comprehensive review of it and how it’s worked for me. I’m an extremely diligent GTD (Getting Things Done) practitioner and frankly, both my personal and professional lives would be a mess without it. GTD is a time-…
I get asked quite frequently about my task management workflow in general, and specifically how I keep projects organized and quickly/easily refer back to discussions in meetings or emails from months earlier. Here’s a look at how I have things set up. And I’ll add some additional posts about the actual setup of individual tools…
As we come to the end of the second quarter in the calendar, it’s time for many companies to start their mid-year reviews as part of their annual appraisal process. I actually intended to write this article back in February when my company gave out annual reviews, but life got in the way and I…
Overview I recently switched to OmniFocus as my GTD application for Mac OS X and iOS. Now, I realize this goes against my initial criteria for finding a new GTD system, which included a requirement that the system be cross-platform, but my computer usage — even at work — has shifted to almost entirely Mac OS…
Overview I recently evaluated Appigo’s Todo Cloud 7, formerly known as Todo Pro. It does just-short job of supporting the GTD process. For example, it doesn’t have project status (e.g., Next Action, Someday/Maybe, Waiting) or projects, though you could, in theory, use tags for the statuses. They use lists rather than projects, which aren’t significantly different in…
Overview It didn’t take long for me to figure out that Producteev wasn’t going to do the trick. It doesn’t support the GTD process sufficiently. For example, it doesn’t have project status (e.g., Next Action, Someday/Maybe, Waiting) or contexts, though you could, in theory, use labels for both of these. There’s also no Inbox. The…
This is a really cool tool created by Nathan Yau at Flowing Data, that models jobs by salary and industry. You can filter by state and highlight by median salary. It’s pretty cool! http://flowingdata.com/2014/07/02/jobs-charted-by-state-and-salary/
I recently had the opportunity to take a two-day certification course for the Agile Scrum Master certification offered by the Scrum Alliance. This course is a prerequisite for taking the certification exam, and teaches you the principles you need in order to understand the Scrum methodology and adequately prepare for the exam. The course was…