SPaMCAST 654 - Monotasking, A Conversation With Staffan Nöteberg

Release Date: 06/06/2021

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This week is a doubleheader (baseball term for two games played by the same teams on the same day against each other). We begin our re-read of Monotasking by Staffan Nöteberg and we have my interview with Staffan. Several years ago I read Staffan’s book on Pomodoro which changed how I work. Monotasking might be even more useful and impactful. We discussed how to apply the ideas in the book to improve focus, productivity, and quality of life.

Staffan Nöteberg is an enterprise agility coach with years of experience in improving personal productivity. He is also the author of Pomodoro Technique Illustrated (2009) and teaches seminars on monotasking to companies in North America, Europe, and East Asia.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/staffannoteberg

Website: https://monotasking.staffannoteberg.com/

Re-Read Saturday News

We start our re-read of Monotasking by Staffan Nöteberg. The book is 237 pages published by Racehorse Publishing (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) and was released in English on June 1, 2021. For most of the readers of the blog and listeners to the podcast, this will be an initial read. The book’s contents include a Preface, Introduction, 7 numbered chapters, an Afterword, and then other stuff like index and more (we will not cover the other stuff but I am glad for the index and endnotes).

Now the fun part. Instead of a straight re-read and discussion. I am going to read a chapter, highlight the parts I am going to implement in the next week, tell you what I am going to do, and then the following week admit how well I performed.

Week 1 - Logistics, Game Plan, and Preface - https://bit.ly/3x1oVap

As a reminder, all of the entries from Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller are available!

Week 1: Re-read Logistics and Front Matter - https://bit.ly/3mgz9P6

Week 2: A Brief Introduction To Scrum, and Why Scrum Goes Bad - https://bit.ly/37w4Dv9

Week 3: Breaking Bad Scrum with a Value-Driven Approach - http://bit.ly/3stGc9Q

Week 4: The Product Owner - https://bit.ly/3qpKvSn

Week 5: The Product Backlog - http://bit.ly/3cAEk9c

Week 6: The Development Team - http://bit.ly/2OLVAAs

Week 7: Embracing The Scrum Master Role - https://bit.ly/3m0HB5D

Week 8: Management - https://bit.ly/31Kv39l

Week 9: Thinking In Sprints - https://bit.ly/321wXTg

Week 10: Sprint Planning - https://bit.ly/3stWOhx

Week 11: Sprint Backlog - https://bit.ly/3njezit

Week 12 - Reclaiming The Daily Scrum - https://bit.ly/3eNzMgz

Week 13: Deconstructing the Done Product Increment - https://bit.ly/3bedTGc

Week 14: The Sprint Review - https://bit.ly/3huZvgP

Week 15: The Retrospective - https://bit.ly/3bOK2Vg

Week 16 - Final Thoughts - https://bit.ly/3p3tbU0v

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