Staffan Nöteberg
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Food-and-Sleep Clock
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Max – my grandmother’s father
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Bus Time
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Procrastination
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Arousal
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Mental State of Flow
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi - Flow : den
optimala upplevelsens psykologi
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Direct and Immediate Feedback
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Sleeping
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Superstition or Focus Enablers?
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Conditional and Unconditional Reflex
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Context Extrapolation
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Why Pomodoro Technique?
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Succession / Duration
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Assumptions
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Stages
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Tools
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Morning
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Break
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Peremptorily Finished
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Set Break
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Activity Completed
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Recording
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Improvement
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Tracking Tool
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Attention Deficit Trait
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LIFO, Follow Plan or a 3rd option?
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Sustainable Pace
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Interruptions Strategy
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Internal Interruptions
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Visualize and then Intensify
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Inverting Dependency
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Void
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External Interruptions
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Protect Pomodoro
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Visualize and then Intensify
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Void
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External Interruptions Strategy
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Estimate
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Effort
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Choose
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Quantitative Estimation Error
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Estimates at Records sheet
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State Diagram
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Sound and Shape
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From: XP Day Mechelen 2007, Matteo Vaccari & Federico Gobbo
To Do Today Sheet
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Paper, Excel or DB?
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Length of Pomodoro
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Length of Break
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Ring Anxiety
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Constant Internal Interruptions
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When Not To Use Pomodoro
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Pomodoro Division
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Pomodoro Set Division
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Respect Timetable
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Overtime
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Optimize Adaptively
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The Silent Pomodoro
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Timeboxed Meetings
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Prioritizing and Stakeholders
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Prioritizing Strategies
• Most Valuable
• Final Piece
• Small
• Just-In-Time
• Long Lead Time
• Doesn’t Disturb
Other
• Has Knowledge
• Already Started
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Anti-pattern Prioritizing Strategies
• New Technology
• Fully Investigated
• Risk
• Last In, First Out
• First In, First Out
• Round-Robin
• Impressive
• My Property
• Planned
• Arousal
• Framework
• No One Cares
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Pair Programming Rhythm
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Authorizing Pomodoro Start
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Pairing Pomodoro Length
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Split Pair Temporary
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Pairing Tracking
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Left or Right Minded?
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Thinking in Pictures or Words?
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mini-Mind Map
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Mind Mapping How-To
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Association Machine
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Von Restorff Effect
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Repeated Reviews
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Daily Mind Map
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Pomodoro Technique Rules
• A Pomodoro Consists of 25 minutes Plus a • The Pomodoro Is Indivisible. There are no
Five-Minute Break. half or quarter Pomodori.
• After Every Four Pomodori Comes a 15-30 • Protect the Pomodoro. Inform effectively,
Minute Break. negotiate quickly to reschedule the
• If a Pomodoro Begins, It Has to Ring: interruption, call back the person who
– If a Pomodoro is interrupted interrupted you as agreed.
definitively – i.e. the interruption isn’t • If It Lasts More Than 5-7 Pomodori, Break
handled it is considered void, never It Down. Complex activities should be
begun, and it can’t be recorded with divided into several activities.
an X. • If It Lasts Less Than One Pomodoro, Add It
– If an activity is completed once a Up. Simple tasks can be combined.
Pomodoro has already begun, • Results Are Achieved Pomodoro after
continue reviewing the same activity Pomodoro.
until the Pomodoro rings. • The Next Pomodoro Will Go Better.
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Next Pomodoro Will Go Better
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Neutralizing Smells
Arousal decreases when complexity is high
Arousal decreases when redundancy is high
Hard work done, but activities that matter are still not complete
Time pressure before release
Mental transition between work and break is to slow
Repeating mistakes over and over
Under estimating task effort
Under estimating task scope
Mind is invaded by competing thoughts
Complex and demanding process consumes my time
Forgetting about the wholeness while in the Flow
Estimation is seen as a promise
Process is not based on facts
Someone pushes work on you
Perfectionism is preventing doing
Fear of failure or criticism is a mental impediment
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Sources
• David Allen - Getting Things Done (0142000280)
• Gunnar Berefelt – ABSe (9140042332)
• Tony Buzan - Mind Maps for Kids (0007151330)
• Daniel Chandler – Semiotics (0415351111)
• Francesco Cirillo - The Pomodoro Technique v1.3 (pdf)
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Flow (0061339202)
• Neil A. Fiore - The Now Habit (1585425524)
• Malcolm Gladwell – Blink (0141014598)
• Torkel Klingberg - The Overflowing Brain (0195372883)
• Jonathan Lindström – Hjärnkoll (9163850818)
• Mary and Tom Poppendieck - Implementing Lean Software Development
(0321437381)
• David Seah - Printable CEO (web)
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