The Pomodoro Technique® by Francesco Cirillo

Learn to manage your time in an effective and enjoyable way.

The Pomodoro Technique® is a way to get the most out of time management. Turn time into a valuable ally to accomplish what we want to do and chart continuous improvement in the way we do it.

Francesco Cirillo created the Pomodoro Technique® in the 1980s. It is now practiced by professional teams and individuals around the world.

By the End of the Course, You Will Be Able To:

• Master the 6 incremental objectives of the technique
• Reduce the stress caused by the pressure of time
• Improve the way you work/study
• Organize tasks in the most effective and efficient way
• Improve your estimates of tasks
• Organize your daily schedule in the best way possible
• Apply the technique with other productivity tools, software, and methods
• Effectively deal with interruptions
• Apply the technique in teams
• Improve the development process of your team

Training Day 1

Part I - Me and the Pomodoro

• The objectives of the Pomodoro Technique
• The three areas of productivity
• The importance of breaks: true and necessary
• The importance of time
• Relationship with time
• Free time
• The forces that drive to 25 minute intervals
• Information logistics
• Organizing your stockpile of things to do
• Strategies to improve the accuracy of your estimates
• Distortions of the technique

Part II - Mastering the Technique

• Why the objectives are incremental
• Objective I: Recording - What, Why, How to be more effective?
• Objective II: Interruptions - Tips & Tricks
• Objective III: Estimation - Getting to a 0 pomodoro estimation error
• Objective IV: Improving the Pomodoro - Getting the most out of each single Pomodoro
• Objective V: Setting a Timetable - the secret to boost the Technique
• Objective VI: Your next big problem - How to apply the technique to improve other areas
• Criteria to assess individual productivity improvements

Training Day 2

Part III - Teams and the Pomodoro

• How to organize a team
• Examples of applying the Pomodoro in teams
• Keeping track of pomodoros within teams
• How to choose and track meaningful metrics for work done in teams
• Improving team production process
• Establishing a sustainable production process
• How to improve team estimates
• Organizing the team schedule
• Assigning tasks in the most effective and efficient way
• Organizing the team to deal with interruptions
• Applying the technique in multi-team organizations

Part IV - Pomodoro Research

• The Pomodoro and ADD
• The Pomodoro and the elderly
• The Pomodoro and children

Part V - Bridging the Gap

• How to develop your own personal productivity system
• Criteria to assess and evaluate productivity methods
• Combining productivity techniques together for maximum effectiveness

Certificate

Every attendee will receive a Student Certificate which proves that he/she attended the course. The name of each participant will appear on the Pomodoro World website as a Pomodoro Technique student.