Productivity

• Productivity and time-management techniques
  • In-class brainstorm. What do you use?
  • The Gantt chart; IMA Shanghai’s Gantt chart template
  • Pomodoro technique
  • Allison’s technique:
    • Keep a to-do list in the same place as the rest of your project. (I usually have a todo.txt file in the same directory as my source code.)
    • Always add things as they come up. Don’t wait until later.
    • Add time estimates to each task. (This is helpful if you know you’ll have just a little bit of time to work on stuff. You can pick a task that matches your time.)
    • Mark items as complete as you complete them, but don’t remove them from the list! Move completed items to a “done” section along with the date/time you completed it. (This helps you make a list of what you did in a particular time period.)
    • Break larger tasks up into smaller tasks.
  • Additional resources from Katherine Bennett’s Ideation and Prototyping class