Here's a short list of some ideas I like to share when we start doing any "agile transformation" work with organizations and teams: 1) Recognize the difference

Here's a short list of some ideas I like to share when we start doing any "agile transformation" work with organizations and teams: 1) Recognize the difference of being "busy" vs "effective" 2) Work-in-Progress = Waste (until it's done - so 1 thing done is better than 1000 "in-progress") 3) Multitasking doesn't work 4) Parkinson's Law: perceived work will expand to the time you allot it. Break it up and set short deadlines. 5) Pareto's Law: 80% of the value is from 20% of the "features". Many things over that base 20% can be skipped or not undertaken yet still provide value. 6) Empowerment Failure: outsource some tasks but don't micromanage. Let smart people make decisions and help them learn how to do so. 7) Email: check it 1-2 times per day at a set time. “Get off the cocaine pellet dispenser and focus on the execution of your top to-do’s instead of responding to manufactured emergencies.” – Tim Ferriss (The 4-hour Workweek) 8) Meetings: stop them whenever possible. Insist on agendas beforehand from the organizer when it's not possible to escape. “Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.” “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.'” – Dave Barry (Pulitzer prize-winning columnist/humorist) (Also listed here: https://www.scrum.city/article-categories/general-productivity/ https://www.scrum.city/article-categories/general-productivi... )