Email Effectiveness with Inbox Zero

After one of those weeks where emergency after emergency cropped up between meetings I let my inbox get out of hand and left emails sitting in them as todo items. I’ve been a GTD follower for about 5 years now and I start to really feel out of control when my inbox is piling up. [...]

February 12th, 2009 | Category: organization, software development | Comments are closed

Two Weeks Into New Management Position

Two weeks into the new app dev manager with a new organization. After moving through this transition a few times I can pass on the following advice:

Start your one-on-ones or continue the existing ones. Spend a lot of time talking and walking around. Your brand new, and you need to get out and start [...]

April 26th, 2008 | Category: management, organization, software development | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Backpack Adds Movable List Items

I implement my personal organization system in 37 Signals Backpack. I’ve had a subscription now for about 15 months and its been the best way I can find to maintain David Allen’s GTD method. After a lot of experimentation including trying out other tools such as just tracking everything on index cards, or using Kinkless [...]

October 20th, 2006 | Category: organization | Comments are closed