Regarding the topic of the article, your insight into planning as procrastination really ressonated. What if this 'human-centric' block system was applied to agile project management workflows? It sugests a robust, yet flexible, model for team task allocation, avoiding analysis paralysis.
I love the enthusiasm, but the moment you add "agile" and "workflows" to something, a project manager somewhere gets a notification and suddenly there are meetings about the meetings.
The system works because it's too dumb to optimize.
That said... if your team tried "everyone does their Focus block before checking Slack," I'd be curious what happens.
Regarding the topic of the article, your insight into planning as procrastination really ressonated. What if this 'human-centric' block system was applied to agile project management workflows? It sugests a robust, yet flexible, model for team task allocation, avoiding analysis paralysis.
I love the enthusiasm, but the moment you add "agile" and "workflows" to something, a project manager somewhere gets a notification and suddenly there are meetings about the meetings.
The system works because it's too dumb to optimize.
That said... if your team tried "everyone does their Focus block before checking Slack," I'd be curious what happens.