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PRODUCTIVITY HACKS @ OZ USING .

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Short "brown-bag" presentation by Gudjon Mar to discuss a range of productivity hacks at OZ

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Page 1: Productivity Hacks at OZ

PRODUCTIVITY  HACKS  @  OZ  

USING                            .  

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VIDEO EXPERIENCE

API & TOOLING

USER & COLLECTION

CONTENT & CHANNELS

SPEC

SPEC

PLANNING REVIEW

STAND UP

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RETRO

STAND UP

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High-level company objectives and milestones.

issues GitHub Issues to further break these into low-level engineering and programming issues.

Asana  

GitHub  Issues      

ç Broad scope

ç Roadmap

ç  Mission and Goals

ç  Corp Tasks

ç Delivery Milestones

ç Maintaining Tickets

ç  Engineering Issues

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INBOX

WHAT IS IT?

IS IT ACTIONABLE?

YES

WHAT’S NEXT ACTION

@me

FILE

INCUBATE

ELIMINATE

MULTI-STEP

DELIGATE TO PROJECT AT DATE

PROJECTS

WAITING FOR LIST

YES

NEXT ACTION

NO

TO PROJECT

PLANNING

REVIEW FOR ACTIONS

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UPCOMING / LATER §  BE CLEAR ABOUT WHAT'S REALLY A UPCOMING/LATER ITEM §  KEEP THINGS IN OTHER LISTS THAT ARE REALLY ASPIRATIONAL

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CHUNKING DOWN FOCUS ON THE TREES, NOT THE FOREST

HABIT #1

§  SMALLER PIECES WILL HELP TAKE ACTIONS MORE QUICKLY §  HELPING TO COMBAT THE FEELING OF TOO MUCH TO DO §  BREAK INTO MILESTONES AND THEN “MICRO-MILESTONES” §  SMALL TASKS ARE DOABLE—PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY, AND EMOTIONALLY

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ENERGETIC CREDIT FOR COMPLETION!

HABIT #2

§  LET FULLY ACKNOWLEDGE OUR COMPLETIONS §  TAKE ENTHUSIASTICALLY CREDIT FOR ALL ACTIONS COMPLETED §  NOT TO WAIT UNTIL THE BIG ITEM IS 100% DONE §  GENERATE ENERGY ALL ALONG BY RECOGNIZING EACH COMPLETION

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TIME-PLANNING—PUT A STOP TO PUTTING IT OFF

HABIT #3 §  USE A TIME-PLAN TO GET BEYOND PROCRASTINATION §  IDENTIFY POWER TIMES FOR DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES §  USE POWER TIMES FOR MOST DIFFICULT ITEMS §  USE DOWN TIME FOR ROUTINE STUFF §  SCHEDULE A SPECIFIC DAYS FOR ITEMS

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MAKE WEEKLY REVIEWS

HABIT #4 Make an agreement with yourself that you will do a weekly review.

§  MAKE YOUR WEEKLY STATUS REPORT §  WEEKLY SORT THROUGH THE INBOX §  PUT ITEMS ON DUE DATE §  RE-PRIORITISE, PROCESS