Archive for the 'Productivity' Category

Book Review: How To Get More done by Fergus O’Connell

A title like that always makes an attractive proposition. Fergus O’Connell presents a simple system which involves doing more of the stuff you want to do and less of the stuff you don’t. Fergus present some NLP techniques, a bunch of questionnaires, some belief change exercises and some tips. It all adds up to a […]

How to find out where the time goes

jWorkSheet is one of the secret tools that form part of my productivity armoury.
What does it do? Why do I use it?….

3 tips to effective freshmeat usage

You use freshmeat right? So do I. I’ve been using it for years. But I’ve only just started using it effectively. Here’s what I did…

"Martial deals with surprise" - GTD related to testing

I made some notes when watching the Dave Allen’s Google Tech Talk on Getting Things Done. In order to help remember them I have mapped them on to Software Testing, with a few additional notes.

Secrets to increased productivity revealed

I confess. I owned too many books on productivity - looking for a silver bullet to increased efficiency. I went through all my productivity books and threw out all those filled with platitudes and wibble wobble and ended up with 1 book. Getting Things Done. And now you can learn the secrets from Dave Allen’s […]

Some tools just get better and better

I have been a MindManager user for a long time, but I’m not a power user. I don’t script it. I don’t use any plug-ins. I don’t generate many documents from it. But it still seemed like one of the best mind map tools out there: fast, easy to use. Every so often it would […]