tychoman

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by tychoman 10y ago
Well, 15m of tweeting on BART has led to dozens of high-value interactions, new followers, and insights for the upcoming blog post. Not bad as a case study!
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by tychoman 10y ago
My experience has shown that this is actually a much less stressful way to work. You're asking ppl to give estimates, with the caveat that there will be no penalty for not hitting it. Because all overruns will be absorbed in the common
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by tychoman 10y ago
But there is no correct time. That's a deterministic paradigm, whereas tasks are probabilistic events, with a distribution of possible points. Take a given task, and there are versions or scenarios where it takes 1x units of time, all
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by tychoman 10y ago
This is exactly why I do it. One tweet in the stream always ends up resonating more than all others combined, and that gives me great insight. All my tweetstorms of the past few weeks are "research" into a blog post I'm writi
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by tychoman 10y ago
There is a bit of a trick, but there are ways to make it easier. This is why in the tweetstorm I said the various parts of critical chain have to be used together, like forces balancing a building. In order to use median (most likely) time
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by tychoman 10y ago
But what is the correct time? There is a whole subfield of project mgmt dedicated to exploring the theories around this question. And the line between "psychological games" and "psychology" is very thin, some would say n
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by tychoman 10y ago
Yeah, sorry about that. Next best thing is to sign up for email updates: http://www.fortelabs.co/blog
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by tychoman 10y ago
Tiago here. Roadrunner mode probably sounds a lot like the "crisis mode" we're all used to in most orgs, but it's actually more like supercompensation principle in all types of learning and training. You focus w/ ev
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by tychoman 11y ago
OP here. Really cool to see the discussion here. So much deeper and more critical than anywhere else. I've made a note of many of the tools mentioned here and will check them out soon.