Getting Results The Agile Way: A Personal Results System For Work And Life (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
This books would have been more suitable as a corporate workshop handbook on time management rather than a serious read. The same concepts, ideas even sentences kept re-occurring all though the book. Everything could have been summarized in 30 pages. I found chapter 10 - results frame, personas and pitfalls the most interesting part.I heard about this book while working at Microsoft, and could "feel" the corporate approach of the author who has been a program manager at Microsoft for many years while reading it. I am a person who keeps weekly and daily todo lists, and even for me some of the techniques suggested, such as time-boxing your day, and having an exact plan, e.g.7:00AM wake up7:10AM workout7:40AM shower8:10AM breakfast8:45AM drive to work...seemed too obsessive compulsive. I think it is much more effective to plan for the main goals for the day, rather than have specific slots allocated for each activity. Overall an interesting read, but it could have been really shortened. Seriously? The guy needs a better editor. The whole book is a mess of buzz words. Examples: "unimportant items slough off.....you'll rehydrate the when needed." Rehydrate? Rehydrate. "Find a way to flow value...chunk your results down." I have no clue what he means. "Create glide paths". "Identify hot spots". "Create scannable outcomes". "Threats" "levers" "actionable"This is a Dilbert cartoon. I suspect the book could be rewritten in one chapter if the editor asked him to use regular, that is, untrendy, phrases.
What do You think about Getting Results The Agile Way: A Personal Results System For Work And Life (2010)?
Could do with detail first- more of a philosophy than a method- agile!
—Jysn
great personal management system, repetitive book.
—SummerandSun
Book has increased my productivity exponentially!
—Olelangi
