More and more ideas are flowing.  As I am driving, walking, eating, and working.  I keep thinking of things to write about.  The problem is I am doing things, I’m busy.  I haven’t figured out a way to quickly document what I want to write about and come back to it.  It feels like I need a Jira project to track my ideas and a brief description, so I don’t forget. 

I have a writing backlog now and I started looking into my constraints.  The scope is the same.  I have defined the length and I kept it consistent.  The time and cost are now fighting to ensure I continue to deliver good quality to my standards.  Not only do I need to figure out a time to sit and remember those ideas that came during a drive, walk or while working.  I also need to write what comes to mind when I sit and dedicate time.  Sometimes I feel like I waste more time trying to remember my ideas than just writing what I’m thinking in that moment.

That’s how it started, write down everything I am thinking about at that point in time.  Not as a backlog of items I need to finish writing.  There are 2 ways of approaching this (that I can think of now), I am sure there are infinite amounts.  One: I ignore all the ideas that come outside of the dedicated time.  Two: I can continue with my backlog.

The second year at my corporate job, I started to get the hang of completing my assignments, managing my time, and being efficient.   I started to volunteer for new projects.  I was ready to learn more.  I was introduced to Jira.  Jira is a tool used to track work items and their progress.  It’s used across multiple industries and flexible enough to support multiple processes while providing easy reporting mechanisms.  In the beginning Jira feels like a foreign language but once in it changes your way of working (WoW), your mindset, and it simplifies complex workflows.  Sounds like I should work at Atlassian!  I don’t.  But like any influencer says, “sponsor me”.

In the short period of time that I’ve started doing this I have learned that my skills working my 8-5 job are transferable to any craft.  This lesson sounds so basic it seems like Business 100 not even 101.  I continue to think that I am using the process to achieve creativity.  Which is the opposite of how I defined creativity to begin with.  I have been so focused on complaining about my job and how I feel stagnant.  My 8-5 job has provided me with skills I am not taking advantage of.

All joking aside, should I use Projects or Components to run my life?