Me & The Productivity Planner - Pomodoros turned into ketchup

Honestly, I somehow felt productive but when I reviewed my day, it really wasn't. All my pomodoros just turned into pomodoro ketchup at the end of the day.

As I said in my previous post I had planned today's work on Friday. Really organised. Came into work and the first few hours were lined by disasters. Let me tell you about it.

Disaster 1: The missing screens

Over the weekend there had been a desk move. I was aware of this. I had put my stickers on my screens to make it obvious to the people moving my things that I wanted my screens moved. They're two lovely high resolution hp wide screens. However, after a bad nights sleep and an empty stomach I enter the office and arrive at my new desk. I here see that my precious screens have not been moved. I spend one hour finding someone to kindly move "my" screens to "my" new desk. Desk-side support gets all my love.

Time spent: 2 pomodoros (1 h = 2*25 min pomodoros + 2*5 min breaks)

Disaster 2: Messed-up fail over and missing folders

Do you work in technology? Do you know what a fail-over means? Well we had a sort of practice one in the test environment. However, due to several circumstances, a couple of our applications were supposed to continue running in the environment they were. However, some got failed over anyway. Well, that didn't work. So spent valuable pomodoros getting that back up.

In another environment a few other folders had magically gone missing. Support and unix teams claim their innocence. Don't trust them. Spent pomodoros sorting this out too.

Time spent: 4 pomodoros (won't do the maths, guess you get it by now)

I'm not actually bitter, we all did well sorting it out. But it's hard work when there's not so many pomodoros in one day.

However, the day was not a complete disaster!

Successes? Awesome unit testing.

I spent 6 pomodoros on writing awesome unit tests. They're clean, they're beautiful. We all love mockito and spring and we all bow down to the clever people. Yes, I'm a Java Developer. 

But best of all, awesome test coverage. We can now safely develop without breaking functionality. The holy unit tests.

So a lot of my tasks are now moved til tomorrow. Will let you know how I get on with the tomatoes (pomodoros) tomorrow.

k thnx bye.