Although the idea of breaking down larger tasks into smaller tasks is nothing new, the concept of actually planning it out in advance as a way of completing a project - as opposed to a task - I think has some merit.
Personally, I am not a big planner, as I think the world in general has "getting things done" fever, where they think that everything has to have some sort of a system in order to make doing it that much more productive.
That's hogwash, in my opinion, and I think that just doing something is more productive that sitting around trying to figure out the best way to do it. However, if the thing that you need to "just do" is so daunting that you are procrastinating due to the size or complexity of it, then obviously you are already not "just doing it," so in that case, a system like micro-tasking might be the answer. |