

And I do it only if I really need to see those tasks separately.

And do a new one only if I have constant tasks’ flow for such category. I use high-level categories for projects. And this volume increased along with responsibility zone - from leader of small dev team to product leader with dozens of people involved. Some of themĪt very intense and critical moments I realize, that I wouldn’t manage such volume of obligations, I usually take. And until now I’ve learned a lot from classic GTD methodology, took some insights from colleagues and some from the internet. This was at Mar 2016.īeing a practitioner, I’ve started to use Todoist at once. And there I realized that this thing can help a lot for such complex role change. At some point I’ve found myself at the lecture about Todoist, made by my former colleague from Yandex. My first real experience with task management methodologies started with transformation from developer into the product manager. But actually most advices can be used with any task manager, like Things, Microsoft To-Do (ex Wunderlist), Google tasks or even some custom workflow in notion. This article shows as an example Todoist (referral link) as I use it for many years already. When you become a product manager or take a leader’s position like engineering manager or project manager, you may be overwhelmed by the number of tasks you should manage. I want to share with you techniques that I use every day for task management, which is one of the most important skills for effective self-management.
