LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast

Derek Huether has been working on new blog post that outlines 3 things you need to do to establish better productivity practices. The blog post will be live in a few days on the LeadingAgile Field Notes site (https://www.leadingagile.com/blog/). In the meantime, check out this podcast where Dave Prior and Derek discuss the triangle of productivity, how to understand what enables you to get more done and the importance of learning to hack yourself for greater productivity. 00:09 Podcast Begins 00:23 Topic Introduction - Patterns on what makes people productive or kills their productivity 01:13 The patterns of success - system, ritual and habit 01:32 Where the data comes from 02:36 Getting clarity the process of productivity 03:10 An example: Scrum 04:14 Personal Kanban as an example 05:25 Holding yourself accountable vs. Making a commitment 06:37 Testing out different personal productivity systems 09:09 The myth of productivity guru’s and developing habits out of rituals 10:54 Learning to do X every day because of what happens when you don’t 11:23 Two systems Derek uses almost daily to increase his productivity 12:00 The importance of breaks and downtime to reset 13:07 If the information being shared requires too much time to convey the message, the message is lost 13:43 How many hours a day are you actually able to be productive 14:22 No one is productive for 8-9 hours a day without a break 15:05 Why you need to reset: “It takes more and more effort to get less and less out of me” 15:46 Planning for personal maintenance 17:15 You need a change of scenery to recharge 17:38 Going to Lowes “OH MY GOD THAT IS SO BORING!” 17:58 Focusing on a different problems to recharge 19:13 If I don’t see progress, my productivity is going to go down and down 19:25 Creating self maintenance tasks and putting them on the board so you don’t skip them 20:35 Is taking a break part of the process? 21:17 Habits can show you if you are being productive 21:36 Hacking yourself to become more productive 23:00 Am I really committed to doing what I am working on now? If not, why are you doing it? 24:04 Dealing with writer’s block 24:42 It’s not about getting the most done. It’s about becoming a student of your productivity 25:27 Having an approach to help you work through things like writer’s block 25:50 Managing procrastination - driven and optimistic vs. pessimistic and indifferent 26:45 What can you do to make yourself more driven and optimistic 26:57 A fifth quadrant - giving yourself permission to not be productive 27:54 Finding the checkpoint so you can take a break - It’s OK! A link to the blog post will be posted here as soon as the blog is live Here is a link to the twitter picture mentioned in the podcast Links from the Podcast: A link to the blog post will be posted here as soon as the blog is live Here is a link to the pictures mentioned in the podcast: The Triangle of Productivity https://www.instagram.com/p/BMhrTBcAPdM/ The 4 Quadrants of Productivity https://www.instagram.com/p/BNUVR07Avjw/ Reaching Derek: On the LeadingAgile website: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/derek-huether/ On his blog: http://www.derekhuether.com On Twitter: https://twitter.com/derekhuether Agile Baltimore Agile Baltimore and the Baltimore Lean Coffee Meetup can be found here: http://www.meetup.com/Agile-Baltimore-Group/