My first guess is that you all heard of him. He was my idol when I was a child, and a some of that infatuation remained even when I grew up (sort of), but I am not sure if he would make My Top 10 Favorite Famous People list today. (A mental note: Jelena, compile that list!)
My other guess is that you have some similar feelings of respect and amazement with the guy.
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Posted by Jelena
Do you want to increase the effectiveness of your working process?
Do you want to fight your tendency to procrastinate?
Do you want time to be your friend, not your enemy?
We are humans, not machines. We can not work non-stop, we need maintainable pace.
Did you hear about the Pomodoro technique before?
This is how my cat helped me capture the essence of Pomodoro on camera:
Staffan Nöteberg blogs, among other things, about the Pomodoro technique in a smart and cool way. He makes it easy to understand the mechanisms behind it.
Check out his Pomodoro Technique in 5 minutes, you may find it valuable. I recommend it!
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Posted by Jelena
“I had such a nightmare last night, you would not believe it!” announced dramatically LittleMissLisa entering the office on a rainy Tuesday morning.
“Good morning to you too!” Annie answered with a smile.
“Yes, hi, I am sorry, but… it was so terrible, a real Armageddon!”
“Apparently you are fine! Did Bruce Willis come and saved you?”
“Obviously! And also, I got this neat idea! Let’s go and get some coffee. And then we will do a Disaster exercise!”
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The team has their first iteration ahead of them, and they will be working on several different tasks during the 4 weeks period. The tasks are picked out, the time estimates are done, the backlog is filled in, but now, since this is their first Sprint together, the team members have to start finding out answers to several questions they have before them.
LittleMissLisa believes that there are no absolute best answers, but that they have to come to what will work best for just them. The team may not discover it from their first attempt, but one has to start somewhere!
The Team is having a short brainstorming to solve the following:
Meaning – when describing a possible workflow for a task, how many and which statuses should they use for that?
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