Greetings, I am looking for guidance in implementing the Agile Results methods/approach within MLO. I am coming back to MLO after a couple years away, and in truth I didn't really master much the first time because I wound up going back to Ecco Pro, an excellent 1997 outline-based PIM. I'm back for good. I will just call the system I'm implementing ARR3, as in Agile Results/Rule of 3 (J.D. Meier should come up with a catchy acronym, for marketing purposes certainly!) ARR3 is a hybrid of Covey, GTD, ZTD, and Agile. I am liking very much so far, and can see it as my long-term approach, and that it will scale. It also seems like MLO has an excellently match of features to the approach of ARR3. Below is some summary information about ARR3. I am currently working on setting up, in MLO, the 3 results for the day, 3 results for the week, 3 results for the year areas. I currently have a set of 3 for Work & Personal.I will focus on the Work and Personal here.
Right now I'm just trying to get the right "feel" for working productively in MLO with this setup. So far, in MLO, I have separate outline folder branches set up for Work, Personal and RoadMap (my analog to ARR3 "Hotspots" and Areas of Focus/Roles and Goals). I primarily work in the Personal and Work areas. Under each Work/Personal branch, I have the following 3 folders set up: Daily Outcomes, Rule of 3; Weekly Outcomes, Rule of 3; and Yearly Outcomes, Rule of 3. (With a "W" or "P" prefix in front of the folder name) Then, under each Week/Month/Year "Outcomes, Rule of 3" folder, I created 3 folders, for each of the three "Projects"/Outcomes I want to create within the time period. On the outcomes folders for week, month, and year, I marked each subfolder/project as "Goal" for Week/Month/Year, as appropriate. Then, under each folder, I place the projects/subprojects/tasks that support accomplishment of each goal. I would like to just work with Goals, Projects, and Tasks in outline view, and perhaps have a Goals view I can look at that would show me only my Rule of 3 outcomes for week/month/year, and not have to have these items under a "Weekly Outcomes, Rule of 3" or "Monthly Outcomes, Rule of 3" That is where I am right now. I am curious if anyone else has tried implementing this ARR3 system, or something very similar, in MLO, and what advice they have to share. The trick is to capture things to be done in a trusted system, that then helps you remember and execute them in a productive way. The challenge for me is spending too much time creating and managing lists of what "could" be done and not enough time "doing" it. That is where a tool like MLO comes in as effective, to help help keep focus on the "doing" James D. AGILE RESULTS SUMMARY =============================================== Agile Results: http://www.30daysofgettingresults.com/2011/10/day-1-take-tour-of-getting-results.html Essential Principles: *The Three Key Parts of Agile Results* Here are the three key parts to Agile Results: 1. *The Rule of 3* 2. *Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, and Friday Reflection* 3. *Hot Spots* In Agile Results, we use The Rule of Three to map out what we want to accomplish in sets of three’s: - *3 results for the day* - *3 results for the week* - *3 results for the month* - *3 results for the year* =============================================== BACKGROUND Recently I tried a bunch of GTD-focused tools and chose Nozbe, which works quite well for people with shorter lists of projects, but bogged down badly as my list of projects grew, and does not support breaking projects and tasks down (outlining), and does not have any linkage between projects and the goals they support. It does many, many things well though; possibly a different post to contrast/compare what MLO could learn from the GTD-Cloud-Crowd apps like Nozbe, NirvanaHQ, etc. In Nozbe (a cloud GTD app) it was simple enough to set each up as "Projects" and each result as a "Task" under that project, but of course with no outline capabilities and no linkage of goals & priorities to projects that support those goals, it broke down. So I came running back screaming to MLO. I am back to MLO to stay, and committed to learning it well this time. (The availability of Android and iOS apps was the key to coming back, that and especially the active, communicative development leadership, that I can bet on continued existence and improvement of the MLO toolset.) I have tried tons of different approaches, from Covey to GTD to ZTD to Agile/Scrum to Kanban to Forster's AutoFocus to Flylady to you name it. (And tried tons of different tools, too distracting to mention here.) The approach that seems to work best for me is a blend of GTD, ZTD, but also broken down by areas of life, like Covey's approach. I also find I really want to keep my personal and work mostly separate. As I am also involved in software development, at my work we are recently emphasizing agile methodologies and Scrum in particular. I recently happened to run across J.D. Meier's "Getting Results the Agile Way". I will just call it ARR3, as in Agile Results/Rule of 3 (he should come up with a catchy acronym, for marketing purposes certainly!) ARR3 is a hybrid of Covey, GTD, ZTD, and Agile which I am liking very much so far, and can see it as my long-term approach. It also seems like MLO has an excellent match of features to the approach of ARR3. LINKS ZTD: http://productivemag.com/1/zen-to-done-ztd http://zenhabits.net/zen-to-done-ztd-the-ultimate-simple-productivity-system/ http://zenhabits.net/minimal-ztd-the-simplest-system-possible/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/f9b55d70-a353-481f-bd4e-ea3af48562d9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
