Manuel A. Pérez-QuiñonesAvoiding Yak Shaving: Do Now or Due SoonFor years I have been playing and exploring how to be productive in my work. The impetus to this exploration has come as a result of…May 29
Yevgeniy BrikmaninGruntworkIntroducing: The Yak Shaving SeriesSharing the pain of DevOps through short storiesJul 4, 20172
Leanne GordonShaving YaksWho knew that yaks needed shaving so often. Every time I think I’m done, I find myself right back there again, poised with clippers in hand…Nov 20, 2023Nov 20, 2023
Jessica KerrinThe CompositionA Taxonomy of Yak ShavingYak Shaving is: doing seemingly-unrelated tasks to get some real task done.Jul 3, 20171Jul 3, 20171
Tom HenricksenThe developer’s resistance, how changing our mindset makes us more productiveYou begin working on your user story. You fix one issue. Then the next one seems tricky.May 30, 2023May 30, 2023
Manuel A. Pérez-QuiñonesAvoiding Yak Shaving: Do Now or Due SoonFor years I have been playing and exploring how to be productive in my work. The impetus to this exploration has come as a result of…May 29
Yevgeniy BrikmaninGruntworkIntroducing: The Yak Shaving SeriesSharing the pain of DevOps through short storiesJul 4, 20172
Leanne GordonShaving YaksWho knew that yaks needed shaving so often. Every time I think I’m done, I find myself right back there again, poised with clippers in hand…Nov 20, 2023
Jessica KerrinThe CompositionA Taxonomy of Yak ShavingYak Shaving is: doing seemingly-unrelated tasks to get some real task done.Jul 3, 20171
Tom HenricksenThe developer’s resistance, how changing our mindset makes us more productiveYou begin working on your user story. You fix one issue. Then the next one seems tricky.May 30, 2023
Jessica KerrinThe CompositionThe Golden Yak(This post continues from the Royal Yak, and concludes the series A Taxonomy of Yaks.)Jul 7, 2017
Les OrchardOn the Yak Shaving Habits of a WriterTL;DR: Writing is apparently so important to me that I procrastinate like crazy rather than risk failing at it.Aug 31, 2016