00 - Week template

Time management
Template
Author

ProtossGP32

Published

March 20, 2023

Introduction

RoadMap: Define what you want, know your energy and yourself

TO-DO: list all the tasks that you have to do by concepts, technologies, tools, etc…

Weight the tasks using tools like Poker Planning

Spring goal: categorize and filter them by importance and urgency based on your roadmap

Decision-making: plan your week

Each week, define tasks for each energy slot of the day (3 each day, 5 days a week). At the end of the week, review it to see how many of the tasks have been accomplished. Once done, plan the next week taking into account the feedback from the previous week:

  • Week 1:
WEEK 1 M T W T F
Morning Weekly planning Weekly Scrum Document class exercises Document Team Project TBD
Afternoon Review Team project status Practise class exercises Work on Team project Practice class exercises TBD
Evening Complete some GitHub tasks Study DevOps tools Complete some GitHub tasks Study DevOps tools Weekly retrospective

Ultimate goal: metrics

Make a retrospective of the previous week, analyse the results of the planning and take action.

Completed tasks

Think about the complexity of the completed tasks and if they matched the expectatives:

  • If the task was easier than you thought, move it to lower energies spaces
  • If the task was harder than you though, think about spitting it into less complex tasks

Also, try to identify what pits you’ve avoided during this week while completing tasks:

  • Overload
  • Overthinking
  • Overdesire –> fast failure due to unreachable expectations

Unfinished tasks

Think about the reasons why these tasks aren’t done:

  • Did you lack some kind of resource (knowledge, tools, etc…) to even start it?
  • Did you find any obstacle that slowed down your progress? The obstacle can be either internal or external, related or unrelated to the task
  • Is this task something that you’ve been dragging along for some time? Is it really necessary?

Retrospective

Based on the previous analysis, identify the weak points of the previous planning, discard useless tasks, reassing new weights to pending tasks and schedule your next week

  • Best decision of all week
  • Avoided pits
  • Core concepts learnt during this week
  • What have you reorganized during this week?
  • What have you learned?