out in a dramatic fireball from space, or will the Four Horsemen ride in just as we start our TV commercial campaign? I will turn off my sarcasm engine for a moment. Look—it turns out that the future involves definitions of done, product roadmaps, and, well, in the government, about 100 different piles of paper.  Now, I believe that this was a dead end: it was a Waterfall solution to the problem. A Better

fall of 2012, “A lot of what the state does is make decisions. We want to find a way to leave less paper on a desk.”1 The governor’s plan has five points that could have been plucked from any campaign

minutes 3. Work on the task until the Pomodoro rings 4. When the Pomodoro rings, put a checkmark on a paper 5. Take a short break 6. Every 4 Pomodoros, take a longer break What does this buy me? 1. Find

Make Ourselves Do What We Want to Do  Example: Vehicle Maintenance, E-mail  Experiment: Class paper deadlines  Observations: o “We found that the students in the class with the three firm deadlines