How I learned about Agile 10 years ago. Why traditional goal-setting doesn't work.
Update: 2024-04-29
Description
In this episode I talk about why long-term goals don't work and how we've been mislead all this time by the traditional goal setting advice. I also share my story of finding out about Agile and how it changed my approach to personal productivity.
Link to the video version of this episode.
Timestamps:
- (00:00 ) - Traditional productivity advice
- (00:32 ) - New Year's Resolutions
- (00:55 ) - My first job at a fast-growing startup
- (01:10 ) - Corporate world - how things are usually done
- (01:40 ) - The time the status quo got questioned
- (02:30 ) - Creation of Agile Framework for building software
- (03:03 ) - How Agile works
- (04:31 ) - My story of learning about Agile
- (06:29 ) - I stopped creating long-term plans 10 years ago
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