Estimates on Your Activity Inventory Sheet

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Commitment is a vital part of the Pomodoro Technique. The To Do Today sheet is your daily commitment. The collection of items on your sheet must be reasonable and realistic. The quantity of activities is about what you normally complete in one day.

If there is a recurring discrepancy between your estimates and the actual effort you have spent on an activity, then there can be two types of error sources:

  • Your estimate process or your estimate ability is not good enough.

  • New information appeared after you started this activity, and it changed the circumstances.

You can’t predict what new information or changing ...

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