Pomodoro Technique video from Devoxx (click to play)
My Pomodoro Technique presentation from the Devoxx conference in Antwerp in Belgium is now freely available. Devoxx may be the second biggest Java conference in the world and a few hundred people attended my session. You can see it here: http://parleys.com/#st=5&id=1595
Thank you Staffan for sharing this with us.
I read your book and tried the technique and it really made a difference. I found that it works really well for repetitive and boring tasks. Lately, I had to encode lots of data in a CMS system. I couldn’t get myself to start this boring, but necessary, job. I had always better things to do, constantly finding ways to escape doing that task. Then I found your book, read a few chapters and decided to apply the basic pomodoro technique to this very boring task. And you know what? It workded. I finished it in record time and, in the end, I nearly enjoyed it. I was really surprised by the results I got though I didn’t follow the technique to the letter because I haven’t even completed the book. I don’t use the technique at work, due to to many interruptions, but at home I try to apply the technique when I’m not motivated enough to do a task, and often I completed it really fast with a great feeling of achievement and it’s so rewarding. The toughest thing with this technique is to make it a habit. This takes time, but it’s well worth it.
Thanks for sharing your story, Thierry!