Polina Bee

Applying Agile & Scrum to personal productivity.
Liberating from overwhelm, perfectionism and productivity nonsense inside

[Polina Bee @Agile_for_One]

It’s been 10 years since I began applying Agile and Scrum frameworks to my personal projects. It worked incredibly well despite contradicting every productivity advice you hear on the internet and self-help books.

You can learn about my journey here
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Enrollment for the February group sprint is now open till Thursday.
It's like a study group for grown-ups.
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Me reacting to the productivity trend of last year

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New video is live. I talk about my counterintuitive secret for staying consistent with the Monthly Method.

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New beginnings - November sprint.

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Definition of done: Unclinging from the outcome

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How to Start Side Project with Full-Time Job

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I don’t have to wait for January 1st and my birthday to have a fresh start. I get it to have it every 4 weeks. The best feeling ever.

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My scrum board at the end of the sprint. The one goal that wasn’t fully completed goes back to the backlog and gets evaluated against other candidates.

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Stop having this flawed assumption when setting goals

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The one-way to-do list

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Experimental mindset when setting goals

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This is how Agile makes you 2X more productive every month

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Reminder:
The definition of done is not a collection of steps you need to take durint the sprint.
The definition of done is that final stage.

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Imagine grabbing a random person off the street, showing them your goal and its definition of done, and asking them if it’s complete.
If they can look at your work and the definition of done and say, “Yes, it’s done,” you’ve succeeded.

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Perfectionism feeds off uncertainty.
If you don’t know what your finished goal should look like, it’s easy to keep tweaking, improving, and making it nicer, better, faster.

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If you ignore the unicorn success stories which account for 0.000001% of all cases, it boils down to just outlasting everyone else.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

If you're relying on AI summarization to know what's important, you should wonder... Why are so many people writing so much stuff that doesn't matter in the first place? And why are we working this way? And why am I paying them to write what's never read and so easily dismissed?

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Agile at its core:
A person who bakes an imperfect cookie every day will be better off by the end of the month than a person who spent a month researching ‘the one’ perfect recipe before baking a single cookie.

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