So — I have identified a lot of open loops today that means projects that are running during the same time:

• My book – 2nd edition. I close this loop tonight :)
• Business in Brazil – an big open loop; I need to create smaller ones
• Moving to Vienna – a small one. But needs to be done.
• Building a new Business in Vienna – Hugh
• Open trainings request, not clear if they will happen or not – tiny but hurting.
• Open proposals to write – tiny but hurting
• Building a new website – tiny but very important
• My disseration – canceled.
• My vacation – very big :)
• Running and Workout – VERY IMPORTANT – ONGOING – nothing to close here.
• and and and

There are several ways to close open loops: working on them, till they are done, or simply close them by eliminating them.

I did this with the dissertation for this year. I will not work on this in 2009.

My Sprint for this week is a combination of urgency and closing open loops. So at the end of this week I want to have reduced the open loops. I have put my Sprint Backlog into an application called Things.

I use the TODAY folder as the Selected Backlog. It contains the tasks of the projects that I have selected to work on. Not ideal, again. To many projects in progress. I can not give you the picture, as I do have sensitive data in it. Not ideal, but this will be more handy than the mind map.

Tomorrow I will start working on the Sprint Backlog. I do have my Daily Scrum with Brazil very early.