Pomodoro Technique® Advanced Course

"The course was very enlightening. I was doing half of the things incorrectly. Before the course, I was only tracking pomodoros. Now, I'm producing them."
--Joseph De Maso Gentile

Learn to manage your time in an effective and enjoyable way

Discover how easy and fun time management can be when you master the skills of boosting focus, getting organized and getting things accomplished. You will be able to immediately put to use what you have learned: you will no longer feel enslaved to time.

Length: 2 days

When It's Offered

This Course is offered throughout the year in various locations. Here you can find the next date for this course:

Who Is It For?

The Training is aimed towards students, managers, developers, teams, employees, coaches, counselors, psychologists, educators, and other specialists who would like to utilize the technique to improve their relation with time.

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

Program

 

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

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 - Applying the Technique with other productivity tools, software, and methods

  • 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.

Requirements & Preparation

Before the Course

Every participant is required to read:

 
 

Interested in organizing this course at your company? Contact us.



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