Comments on: Getting Things Done for Web Project Management

By: thesambarnes

thesambarnes — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:27:01 +0000

@Steve, I don’t recall now how I got an audio version of GTD but I do have one. Tweet me your e-mail address :)

By: Steve Wise

Steve Wise — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:07:06 +0000

Thanks for a great article. Have you been able to purchase GTD from Audible? When I try to make the purchase and enter my UK address on the .com site it redirects me to .co.uk. GTD isn’t available on the uk site. Thanks again.

By: thesambarnes

thesambarnes — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:31:22 +0000

@Steve, Thanks for the comments. I’m actually drafting a new article about GTD in which I describe the software I use now to back up by personal approach to GTD. It’s simple enough to just work at the level I need it too, watch this space :)

By: Steve Dangerfield

Steve Dangerfield — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:18:47 +0000

GTD is such a great tool; I’ve been using it now for over 2 years and will never look back. Like you, I don’t implement it 100%; I’d say between 80-90% there are some things that at the moment I don’t need to incorporate into my system; although a periodic review is important as you could be leaving something out that you need.

The use of the ‘waiting for’ list and your example of that possibly-irritating phone call is a great way of turning a threat into an opportunity :-) Clients are sometimes hard to get hold of so when you’ve got hold of them you’ve got to maximise that time and context.

I don’t use any special software for GTD as I currently run two systems; one for a major client (who mandates that information that would go into a GTD system be held on their IT system), and another for my personal and minor clients. I just use Outlook.

I’ll be subscribing to your RSS feed too, following, and connecting etc…

Steve

By: thesambarnes

thesambarnes — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:17:58 +0000

Thanks for the reccommendation Dan. Personally I'm using GTDify right now and am absolutely loving it!

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:11:04 +0000

For implementing GTD you can use this web-based application:

http://www.Gtdagenda.com

You can use it to manage your goals, projects and tasks, set next actions and contexts, use checklists, schedules and a calendar.
A mobile version is available too.

By: thesambarnes

thesambarnes — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:36:38 +0000

@billb, I use Basecamp as the main project communication tool for work so definitely agree with your recommendation.

I didn’t really think about it as helping productivity, but you’re right, being able to have most project communication in one place helps loads (and also makes you fluent in Textile text formatting!)

I don’t however create custom reports for pulling out data as you mention in your post – I think there would be many people that would be interested in more detail on that.

Glad you’ve enjoyed reading so far, I’ve subscribed to yours too – share the love ;-)

By: billb

billb — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:41:46 +0000

You mention you use Backpack, another great 37Signals tools we use in our shop is BaseCamp. I too am a Web Developer turned tech manager/tech lead. We no longer have traditional “Project Managers” at my company, so I naturally have needed to move in that direction. Project collaboration software keeps your inbox size down as all correspondence is automatically in BaseCamp in its designated project. It is easy to read and delete, knowing the data has been stored accordingly. I wrote a short post about my personal use of project collaboration software for project collaboration on my blog. http://www.effectivedevelopment.net/2009/03/use-project-collaboration-software/

I found your site today on Twitter, (I have a similar theme on my blog). Your articles have been a great morning read for me. I have subscribed to your RSS feed and look forward to your posts.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:38:50 +0000

Hey damonky, it sure is a transition huh! :)

Jello Dashboard looks really interesting, I haven’t heard of this before. It has a similar interface to Tracks so I may just have to give it a go at work.

By: damonky

damonky — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:16:53 +0000

Great post. I’ve been making a very similar transition. We currently use Outlook and as such I have been using Jello Dashboard GTD ( http://www.jello-dashboard.net/ ). It intergrates into the front page of your outlook and has made keeping my inbox at zero much easier.