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Heaps

If you are anything like me, you probably have a bunch of ideas and too little time to act on them. To help bring some order, we may rely on a tool that is designed to help us prioritize tasks (Figure 10-1).

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FIGURE 10-1

An example of a task board

There are a billion tools out there for managing our projects, and they all do a variation of the following things:

  • Allow us to catalog all of the items that we want to work

  • Give us the ability to prioritize things

  • Provide a way to help us easily see what the highest priority items are

  • Allow us to add and remove items while maintaining our prioritized order

Building our own tool that does ...

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