Pomodoro Technique Illustrated

Yesterday’s Weather

As you know by now, one Pomodoro is a 25-minute iteration. Multiple Pomodori are surrounded by a larger daily iteration. Each day starts with planning and ends with the retrospective. In a Pomodoro, you should allow yourself to focus on only one activity. But how many activities should you plan for one day?

A national weather service spent a gigantic amount of money on a new forecast system. All the emerging technology was included, and it had an accuracy rate of almost 70 percent. Then a clever person challenged the super machine with a much simpler algorithm. It was called Yesterday’s Weather, and it said, “Tomorrow will be ...