Negotiation
I’ve been listening to Slate’s Negotiation Podcasts, which I think are excellent. There are currently 7 episodes (although more are on their way), each about 10-15 minutes in length. Below are my notes summarising what I’ve learned:
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Emacs and Kanban
Bryan Morris has a post about how he has set up Emacs using org-mode to implement a Kanban board. He uses table mode within org-mode, and hyper-linking to link items within the table, to actual org-mode tasks. To me, this setup seems a little clunky, so I thought I’d describe my current system.
Kanban
I was browsing a list of tools and services for a lean startup a couple of days ago, when I noticed that many of tools implement a Kanban methodology. I had never heard of Kanban, so I took a quite trip over to Wikipedia.
Kanban rocks! Headline points 1. and 2. are sufficient reasons to use it.
I like Confluence Greenhopper, which integrates with Jira, ...
Huh, I'll have to give that a try!
Blogging Process
I have been meaning to blog more for ages. I have had a blog on the internet since early 1990 in one form or other, but I just tend to do sporadic blogging. Every so often I get fired up with communicating and write some blog posts, and then my enthusiam wanes for a while, [...]
Big well done on the regularity Brett - how long does it take you to write a post - on ...
Usually about 20-30 minutes. I'm slowly improving and automating the workflow to make things easier. Currently looking at using Python's ...
Micro-boxing for productivity
Time-boxing is an idea that I heard about a number of years ago. It’s only been fairly recently that I have tried to incorporate it as a regular part of my daily workflow. The general idea behind time-boxing is that you concentrate on working for a set periods of time through-out the day. I adjust [...]