Re:Ask HN: How to do Project Management for personal projects?
by debacle on Monday March 19, 2012 @11:05AM
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I've used Trello, the pomodoro technique, and self-sprints to a great degree.
I think Trello and the pomodoro technique can be used almost universally, but the self-sprints are something I tailored to myself - I realized that I work best in short, intense bursts and not long, predefined durations. Sometimes I'm more productive in a single hour from 6:30am to 7:30am than I was for the three days before.
Get yourself Flowkeeper (a good pomodoro tool), a Trello account (or another piece of work queue management software), and start keeping a journal of your productivity - try and figure out when you're most and least productive, and work around that schedule.
Edit: Also, as a single person you'll never be able to be doing more things than can fit on a single whiteboard. A whiteboard is probably the single best investment that I've ever made for productivity.
I think Trello and the pomodoro technique can be used almost universally, but the self-sprints are something I tailored to myself - I realized that I work best in short, intense bursts and not long, predefined durations. Sometimes I'm more productive in a single hour from 6:30am to 7:30am than I was for the three days before.
Get yourself Flowkeeper (a good pomodoro tool), a Trello account (or another piece of work queue management software), and start keeping a journal of your productivity - try and figure out when you're most and least productive, and work around that schedule.
Edit: Also, as a single person you'll never be able to be doing more things than can fit on a single whiteboard. A whiteboard is probably the single best investment that I've ever made for productivity.