1. What is Pomodoro
The Pomodoro Technique is a time management simple and easy, by Francesco Cirillo was founded in 1992 by a phase-to GTD more microscopic time management.
practice:
- Start planning a day when several tasks to be completed today
- Set your timer, time is 25 minutes.
- Start to complete the first task, until the end of 25 minutes.
- Stop working, rest for 5 minutes. 25 minutes of focused work plus 5-minute break, this is called a Pomodoro
- Beginning of the next Pomodoro, to continue the task. It has been the cycle continues until the completion of the task, and the task crossed off the list.
- After every four Pomodoro, rest for 15 minutes.
In the course of a Pomodoro, if suddenly remembered what to do:
- Do not then have to immediately stop the Pomodoro and declare it void (even if it is over 5 minutes left), to complete this matter, after the re-start with a tomato bell;
- You do not have to immediately do so, remember this matter in another list (for example, called "unplanned event"), and then complete the Pomodoro.
2. "Pomodoro graphic"
The Pomodoro Technique is very simple, because it is simple and effective, so very popular. I also spent a long time Pomodoro, before the chance to see the Amazon recommended to me this "Pomodoro Graphics" buy, printed information from the book can also be seen in the popularity of the Pomodoro Technique: December 2018 43rd Beijing printing .
Programmers should feel part of the Pomodoro Technique is very suitable for them, after all, the author of "Pomodoro illustration" of software development background, and recommended people and almost all developers or IT industry experts agility.
The book describes a lot of infrastructure Pomodoro, principles, procedures. I summarized in three steps:
2.1 plan
You need to use two tables:
To Do Today , intends to list the activities carried out today, this table every morning to be a new one.
List of activities , listing the activities to be undertaken recently, Caprice with fill, do not sort.
Select the part populated every morning to Do Today from the active list. In order to stimulate motivation, do what you need for a fixed period of time, to extract a group of the right amount of activity from the activity list. If you are self-extraction process is performed by, are you sure I believe these goals can be achieved within this period of time, this becomes self-commitment . One day, a length of time can be expected, and promised to complete the activity, time of day is long enough.
2.2 Work and Rest
Contains a complete break is included Pomodoro, no rest did not matter Pomodoro, just keep working on it, and it is impossible to remain focused. The work can also interrupt the current global look at today's schedule, after the break you have to decide: is to continue with an activity, or switching to another. The degree of switching is because Chinese medicine has changed, it may be because the activity has been completed.
The book describes a method for an in-depth relaxation 5 minutes:
- Find a comfortable chair.
- Close your eyes and rest the outset, the body is able to find the most relaxed posture. Let the neck, arms, legs completely relaxed.
- Think of an optical scanning apparatus has: a horizontal bright head to toe, top to bottom slowly moving. Focus at the clinics of the band of light of all the muscles, allowing them to further relax. Particular attention to the eyes, carefully eliminate the tension of the eye.
- Think there is a huge white rectangle gently floating in the air, if it's gone, it does not matter. This is only an introduction, let you ponder on before Pomodoro work down.
- When complete rest, gently open your eyes, start Pomodoro, focused, forward.
I found it very useful trick when sleep at night.
2.3 Continuous Improvement
When using the Pomodoro you need to have a list, record the completion of each Pomodoro, review the day's work every day, continue to improve their work. Continuous improvement is a working method, the goal is improvement, focused on gradual change. For example: Keep it simple should be a part of your daily routine. You should ask yourself every day: Do I need to make activities more compact? Do I encountered recurring problems? In my personal standardization activities and processes, if there are unnecessary overhead?
2.4 protection Pomodoro
The biggest difficulty Pomodoro is an external interrupt, once the focus is interrupted, to resume takes a lot of time.
"Graphic Pomodoro" introduced in a variety of ways to deal with interruptions, such as those below:
E-mail and phone is easy, you can turn it off. Email people do not look forward to within 25 minutes received a reply. Every half hour, a new message headers prior to receipt of the sort of work the following overview, which has stocks left. Phone messages handled the same, but become reply to call it. Of course, the return e-mail and call back to arrange a Pomodoro activity, rather than at rest.
If you find someone interview, without affecting the result, you can ask them to try to postpone. For your colleagues, you reply reply today or Friday, the result may be the same. In the other acceptable range, we advised him to back arrangements. With later Pomodoro reschedule interrupt event, but do not directly deal with at the time, so do a lot of office.
3. "soft skills" of Pomodoro
"Survival Guide to the code other than soft skills" are also highly recommended Pomodoro, although only a few pages, but can be used as a supplementary reference.
When the Pomodoro Technique is only as estimates and assessment tools, in order to play its true power.
Proper use of the Pomodoro Technique taught me to "set priority" true value. When I was a week only so much that can be assigned Pomodoro, I must be careful to use these valuable Pomodoro. Before using the Pomodoro Technique, I have been dreaming of their own can be completed within a week beyond their actual ability of many jobs, they overestimated their own time and underestimate the time required to complete the task. However, after the start of the Pomodoro Technique, I know exactly how long work week confidant, but also know how much you accomplish Pomodoro task.
Other authors also recommended not to overestimate their own dedicated time, many people believe that high yield can concentrate on only a few hours work a day, then for a long time has little results.
Once I increase the amount of transition beyond the scope of their abilities, will always pay the price.
When I first started Pomodoro, I found one day in order to complete six Pomodoro is very difficult. You will be surprised to find that fleeting time of the day, to be held in most of the day in focus requires great dedication and willpower. Now, every day I set the goal 10 Pomodoro, but this is already a very heavy work. I usually need to work more than eight hours to reach this goal, sometimes also not up to standard.
Research results show that the use of Scrum Scrum work more than 30 hours per week maximum output, too much work but will reduce output. Japan Microsoft recently also experimenting with working four days a week. More and more people think that working time more efficient and focused than inefficient long working hours output.
4. Pomodoro
Easy to use Pomodoro Pomodoro can make it more interesting, here are a few Pomodoro.
Forest , adopted a more moderate and positive incentives Pomodoro combination allows users to stay focused, get a seedling in focus after working for some time to collect enough seedlings can be planted a forest. It provides a browser plug-ins, such as FireFox plug-ins . There are also mobile client, but I think occasionally glance at the phone distractions while working.
Small tomato , which is its official website address . A good-looking, full-featured, cross-platform Pomodoro. I have been using this Pomodoro, but all the buttons are not MouseOver and Pressed states, feel not very good.
Real timer , Taobao many interesting and cool Pomodoro, if you do not mind the noise, then the pendulum can be bought at the desk, taking into account the functional furnishings.
Pomodoro also has a role in telling people, "I'm working," I tried two monitors in the office, small tomatoes are usually displayed on the sub screen is maximized, it can tell people when you can be assured of not bother me.
5. My Pomodoro
As a programmer too focused not necessarily a good thing, I have tried to change the parameters of non-stop debugging problems encountered no solution until after work, but commuting on the bus, take a bath, brush teeth, get up thought were four possible solutions . Rest is an important part of the Pomodoro Technique, step back and relax tense thinking, get a global perspective is essential for program development.
Everyone has their own method for working environment, Pomodoro is not necessarily for everyone, I think, not for the pursuit of reward. In order to improve their work efficiency can try a variety of methods, and the Pomodoro method is simple with no side effects, may wish to use it as a first step to try.