Posts filed under: Re-Read Saturday

Re-Read Saturday-ish, Monotasking, Week 7, Chapter 5, Progress Incrementally

This week’s chapter of Monotasking by Staffan Nöteberg. is Progress Incrementally. I was first exposed to the idea of incrementalism and timeboxing by my mother while helping (or voluntold) with... Read More

Re-Read Saturday-ish, Monotasking, Week 6, Chapter 4, Never Procrastinate

This week’s chapter of Monotasking by Staffan Nöteberg. is Never Procrastinate. I have been working on procrastination and overcommitting my whole life. Compared to my 7th-grade self I have made... Read More

Re-Read Saturday, Monotasking, Week 5, Chapter 3, Focus On One Task Now

In Chapter 2 of Monotasking by Staffan Nöteberg, Staffan describes how to create a short list of five items and then to push everything else to the “grass catcher” list.... Read More

Re-Read Saturday, Monotasking, Week 4, Chapter 2, Cut Down on Tasks to Do

Finally, we have reached Chapter 2 of Monotasking by Staffan Nöteberg. It is ironic that a failure in my ability to control WIP in my personal life led to a... Read More

Revisiting Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

For the second week, family obligations have interrupted by writing.  We are featuring a repost of the conclusion of Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.  I am still... Read More

Hiking!

This week…I am hiking in the woods without my laptop albeit I do have my copy of  Monotasking by Staffan Nöteberg. I am continuing to focus on using shortlists, which... Read More

Re-Read Saturday, Monotasking, Week 3, Chapter 1, Monotasking In A Nutshell

This week we focus on Chapter One of Monotasking by Staffan Nöteberg, which is titled Monotasking In A Nutshell. This chapter lays the foundation for translating the Five Axioms of... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Monotasking, Week 2, Introduction, The Five Axioms of Monotasking

The first chapter in  Monotasking by Staffan Noteberg is the introduction, titled The Five Axioms of Monotasking.  As a reminder, an axiom is a statement that is regarded as being... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Monotasking, Week 1, Logistics, Game Plan, and Preface

We start our re-read of Monotasking by Staffan Noteberg.  The book is 237 pages published by Racehorse Publishing (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) and was released in English on... Read More

Re-Read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 16, Final Thoughts

We have read or re-read Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems by Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley cover-to-cover, if you don’t count the index at the back... Read More