Getting Things Done Topless

The Times They Are A-Changin'. The strict boundary between work and personal life is fading away. Many people experience information overload. There's too much to do. If. We. Only. Had. More. Time. Our brains aren't the best tools to keep track of all the things we need to remember and organize. They gladly remind us of the most boring things to do - at a useless time, again and again. Yet our brains forget that one important thing we promised. Imagine a mental toolkit that addresses these problems. That's what this session is about, based on David Allen's book "Getting Things Done" (GTD). This is a Topless workshop. This means that we won't use computers. We are convinced that if you know how to do this on paper that you will be able to transer it to any computer system you like.

Audience

Everyone that is interested in getting better organized.

Benefits of participating

Learn a way to organize life and work that is applicable beyond software development.

Benefits include:

Avoid wasting time by doing less than two minute actions immediately.
Know where you go by defining desired results.
Make tasks executable by specifying next actions.
Organize the easy to forget details in life and work into a trusted system, so you can focus on what is important.

Session timeline

Introduction to the Getting Things Done system.
Getting Things Done Exercises.
Q & A

History

One of the presenters did a shorter version of this session at BarCamp Brussels (September 2006) and XP Days Benelux 2006. After the succes on these conferences we created the full day version and put it on our training agenda.

Participants

5 - 20 
 
 
Technorati tags: Getting things done, GTD, Time Management, Yves Hanoulle, Bernard Vander Beken, Topless