Extreme Planning by Mike Griffiths spells out the common sense idea that project planning for software development is not just a big plan up front that never changes, but more of an iterative process that evolves as the solution is developed. Software development projects are difficult to accurately schedule up front, because there are too [...]

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How to handle a string of skip days in the Do [x] Daily program is a common concern. Yesterday is over. You just have to forget about the past and move on with today. Don’t beat yourself up over any skips, and just be sure you still intend to do your thing daily. Running – [...]

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I’m always looking for ways to make life simpler, and have found Wize.com to be a simple way to find the products that have been rated best by users, experts and have some positive “buzz”. I just gave you the rough formula for Wize’s scoring algorithm. Take a look for yourself and see what I [...]

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Brian Benzinger at Solution Watch writes about a new web-based PM and Document management tool called Solodox. This tool sounds like a great way to manage docs and projects as a team. I am going to keep an eye on this: Solodox, which launched in alpha last month, is a free web-based word processor and [...]

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One of the keys to the GTD process is getting to zero. David Allen talks about a state where you have captured all the “stuff” in your life and placed reminders in a trusted system so that it is out of your head. By doing this you can achieve a state he calls a “Mind [...]

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Are you reading enough?  I think everyone has some backlog of reading that they would like to knock out, but somehow the reading stack keeps growing with books, magazines, papers until it falls over into a big pile.  How can you keep up.  Read Daily. You just need to set aside a small block of [...]

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Julia Cameron, author of several creativity books including the Artist’s Way, encourages the use of what she calls “Daily Pages”. These daily pages are a tool to keep the creative juices flowing, avoiding the inner critic and developing a habit of writing every day. I would say that committing to daily blog posts could accomplish [...]

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So, if you’ve been doing your [x] every day, you’ll want to keep track of your progress. Logging your daily actions will help you stay motivated to keep acting daily. Especially with fitness related actions, like running, a log will help you see where you may need to make changes and if you’ve set certain [...]

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Project managers sometimes wonder about how often they need to check status on their projects. Unfortunately, what ends up driving the status updates is the schedule of status reports. If your communication plan calls for bi-weekly status reports you end up waiting until just before the status report is due to check in with your [...]

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The Daily Cup of Tech site is running a contest of the best possible combinations of freeware software that will fit on a 32MB USB drive. If you have ever used a thumb drive, I’m sure you can see how a collection of tools for various tasks would be cool to keep handy for emergencies. [...]

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