Extreme Productivity Seminar
Sunday, January 13th 2008 | Ismael Ghalimi
Between Intalio, the Office 2.0 Conference, my flight training as a commercial pilot, and my duties as father of an 11 months old baby girl, I tend to be fairly busy, and many people I meet wonder how I manage to fit all this into regular 24 hour days. In theory, the answer is pretty simple: apply David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology religiously, and use the best tools money can buy. In practice though, it takes a lot of personal discipline, and building a working system took many trials and errors. Today, this Extreme Productivity System is working pretty well, and I have decided to share it with anyone interested.
The Extreme Productivity System is a combination of processes and tools. It is still under development, but many of its components have been implemented using Salesforce.com, and used effectively for the past three years. As of today, I use it to manage over 200 independent projects, with more than 500 tasks related to them. In other words, it scales pretty well. One of my projects this year is to package it into a Salesforce.com application that could be downloaded from the AppExchange. In the meantime, I will refine it and share it through public seminars.
The first of these intense one-day events will be held on Friday March 28th, 2008 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Each participant will be given access to an evaluation version of Salesforce.com that will be extended with custom objects such as Project or Travel and AppExchange applications such as EchoSign or VerticalResponse. Prior knowledge of Salesforce.com is not required, but the commitment to use it as a personal productivity tool is. Familiarity with the Getting Things Done methodology is strongly recommended as well, even though the Extreme Productivity System should not be considered as a faithful implementation of David Allen’s work.
Through this seminar, participants will learn:
- The Extreme Productivity Process
- How to implement it with Office 2.0 tools
- How to use Salesforce.com as an effective Personal Information Manager
- How to extend Salesforce.com with custom objects and applications
- How to access Salesforce.com from any mobile device (including the Apple iPhone)
- How to manage multiple business activities
- How to manage many concurrent projects
- How to manage a very large number of social relationships
- How to optimize heavy travel schedules
The regular seminar will be priced at $995, but the first one is offered at $495, and seats are limited. All profits will go to fund my training as a commercial pilot, and participants are entitled to a free plane ride to be scheduled anytime this year. If this sounds like fun, please drop me a line.
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Ismael:
This sounds great but unfortunately I will not be able to attend in person. How about a webinar in the near future? By the way, I am using Persony, learned about it from the last Office 2.0 conference, and it works great for about $50 per month.
Also, you may already know about these applications, but I am using Jott, the voice command application with Vitalist for GTD and Xpenser for my expense reports. For a mobile professional, these tools are great.
Agree with you though that GTD is an easy concept but it’s tough to implement, and one needs to be disciplined about using it. I guess that’s why I tend to favor a minimalist system much like the one advocated in the Zen Habits blog.
-Ryan
Ryan,
Good to hear from you. I will definitely consider doing a webinar down the road, but I need direct feedback first in order to refine the concept. Thanks for sharing your experience with Vitalist and Xpenser. I definitely need to take a look at these.
Best regards
-Ismael
Hi Ismael,
Very interested, but surprised that you family man is holding it on a Saturday.
Come on, this is raising our productivity, you should be able to go during work time.
Please move it to Friday or Monday.
-Mark
Mark,
Fair enough, I can take a day off.
Would you attend then?
-Ismael
Ismael,
If you are so productive, find the time to post, you are on of my favorite blogs.
Perhaps an article on how Air (Adobe, not Apple) will affect 2.0? While it has received coverage, I believe some may be missing the significance of it. This is another HUGE step in applications moving to the web.
David,
You got me good on this one!
More seriously, lack of posting has nothing to do with lack of time in my case, and more to do with lack of inspiration. I like to write about what’s about to come, not what’s already there, and a lot of things happening right now in the Office 2.0 space, I wrote about 12 to 18 months ago. I don’t see any point in writing about them again, telling the world how right (or wrong) I was. That being said, I’m getting some new ideas, therefore regular posting should resume soon.
Best regards
-Ismael
I would think a series of tutorials based on this seminar should be put together and sold to Salesforce.com for availability to all users.
Ismael,
Love the initiative and learning objectives. With a new born I can not commit, but will recommend internally. Can we talk tomorrow to help accelerate SFDC’s involvement? I will call you, but please do not hesitate to reach out to me.
Kind regards,
-Anthony
Anthony,
Thanks for your help, much appreciated.
Best regards
-Ismael
I live very far away, but and would love to hear about the seminar. Could you please post results later, and advise if you are doing another one in the future. I would definitely be interested to attend, but I need at least two months lead time to organize myself.
Grace,
We will definitely have other ones.
Friday, May 30th is the date for the next one.
-Ismael
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