Emne: Hvordan GTD holder meg flytende

Jeg har brukt David Allens GTD-teknikker siden noen uker etter at den første boka kom ut i 2002. Jeg skal på ikke påstå at jeg er en ekspert på GTD, og får forøvrig fortsatt ikke til «weekly review» slik jeg ønsker! Men har erfaringer og tanker om hva som hjelper – og hva som kåler ting til. Uten GTD hadde jeg sunket forlengst!

Biografi:

Øyvind Solstad er teknologirådgiver i NRK og redaktør for NRKbeta.no.

Øyvind har bred erfaring fra radio, tv og nett. Han har jobbet foran og bak mikrofon/kamera, og har åtte års erfaring med markedsføring fra NRKs promoavdeling.

Han har stor kunnskap om internett og sosiale medier, både strategi og praktisk bruk. Øyvind er anerkjent for sine presentasjoner, og har deltatt på en rekke konferanser i Norge og i utlandet.

Han bor i et mummihus ved elven i Oslo, har Mac og gadgets som han liker og kjæreste som han elsker. Han er interessert i film, foto, musikk, design, løping og padling.

Følg Øyvind på twitter @osol (norsk) og @oyvind (engelsk) og besøk nettsiden oyvindsolstad.com

Øyvind Solstad

Todd var med oss Live fra London under forrige meetup og vil det også denne gangen via videoskype. Todds tale blir holdt på engelsk.

Todd will give his talk in English

Emne: Common pitfalls of GTD implementation
Implementing GTD is transformative. It can unleash untapped reserves of energy and dramatically increase productivity, while reducing stress and fostering better work-life balance. But getting started and optimizing your GTD thinking and systems can be tricky – a GTD implementation represents major personal change, and such change, while often inspiring, is never easy. Drawing on experience of coaching, training, and implementing GTD in organizations large and small, Todd will provide a roadmap to the common pitfalls often experienced on the journey to black-belt GTD.

Biography

Todd is co-founder and director of Next Action Associates, a certified international partner of the David Allen Company in the UK. NAA provides coaching and seminars that help individuals and teams get the most from GTD.

Todd has been a leader in the global learning and development/talent management community for more than 20 years, with a particular focus on learning for IT. Todd has experience in organisations from start-ups to large multinationals, including 10 years at Morgan Stanley. He has broad experience designing and leading successful organisational change, including turnarounds, mergers, divestitures, and realignments.

Todd has held senior and board-level positions in organisations in diverse industries including finance, IT, marketing, and business-process outsourcing. He is a collegial, people-focused manager, coach and mentor.

An accomplished presenter and speaker, Todd is frequently a featured speaker at international conferences. Todd has lived in both Europe and the US, and his interests include history, global cultures, and coastal sailing. He holds an MBA from New York University.

Todd Brown

Frode var hovedtaler under forrige meetup og vil denne gangen være med oss live fra San Diego via videoskype.

Emne: The Joy of Failure
Frode taler på engelsk

Biography

Frode Odegard is the Founder and CEO of Odegard adVentures and the Lean Software Institute. He is a long-time entrepreneur and management consultant in the IT industry who has recently branched out into other areas as well. Frode  started his first software company while still attending high school in Norway, and subsequently immigrated to the United States in 1990, where he founded Odegard Labs, a software R&D lab. His career gradually moved into teaching and consulting on software engineering best practices. In 2004 he founded the Lean Software Institute, a management consulting firm dedicated to bringing Toyota’s Lean business methodology to the IT industry. He recently founded Odegard adVentures as a parent company for all his ventures/projects.

Frode has chaired industry conferences and participated in international standards work. He has helped a broad range of technology companies, including Sony Electronics Inc., Lockheed Martin, Honeywell Aerospace, Cardinal Health, AT&T Wireless, and Plantronics. Frode is currently in the process of launching three new ventures: an educational venture helping individuals get more out of their lives, an organizational learning consultancy, and a software company in the knowledge management space.

Frode’s interests outside work include history, languages, philosophy (Objectivism), art, mathematics, psychology, skydiving, and strength training. He lives in San Diego, California, surrounded by beautiful models, expensive cars, luxury yachts, and fine wines. (Okay, that last sentence isn’t 100% true, just checking if anyone really reads until the end..)

Frode Odegard at the September 2009 Tweetup

Frode Odegard at the September 2009 Tweetup

Foredraget til Todd vil holdes på engelsk.

Todd will be joining us live from London

Perfectionism, Gestalt Psychology, and Grass Roots Organising in the Credit Crunch – Reflections on Four Years of Getting Things Done at Morgan Stanley

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Biography

As an executive director at Morgan Stanley University and enthusiastic GTD champion, I made GTD part of the standard curriculum for new employees. At the same time, I was evolving and optimising my own systems. I’ll share a brief travelogue of this GTD journey – the ups, downs, cautionary tales and (hopefully) sage advice. What’s important to consider when getting GTD to bed-in in big companies? Does GTD translate into global cultures? How did my own GTD thinking inform what happened in the wider organisation?

Todd is co-founder and director of Next Action Associates, a certified international partner of the David Allen Company in the UK. NAA provides coaching and seminars that help individuals and teams get the most from GTD.

Todd has been a leader in the global learning and development/talent management community for more than 20 years, with a particular focus on learning for IT. Todd has experience in organisations from start-ups to large multinationals, including 10 years at Morgan Stanley. He has broad experience designing and leading successful organisational change, including turnarounds, mergers, divestitures, and realignments.

Todd has held senior and board-level positions in organisations in diverse industries including finance, IT, marketing, and business-process outsourcing. He is a collegial, people-focused manager, coach and mentor.

An accomplished presenter and speaker, Todd is frequently a featured speaker at international conferences. Todd has lived in both Europe and the US, and his interests include history, global cultures, and coastal sailing. He holds an MBA from New York University.

Todd Brown

Foredraget til Frode vil holdes på engelsk.

Frode Odegard:
Confessions of an Entrepreneur and GTD Black Belt: Results from Chaos

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In this talk I will discuss GTD from the perspective of a serial entrepreneur, someone who is much better at starting new things than he is at finishing them.  I will explain why the human mind needs an external, trusted system for improving productivity, perspective, and control. These days almost all of us are leading lives with complexities we can’t easily avoid, so we have to find better ways to handle them.

I will cover the key aspects of GTD – managing your workflow, keeping perspective with multiple horizons of focus, and conducting regular reviews to maintain perspective and control. I will also discuss my own motivation for getting started with GTD, how I did it, and what my life is like now. Finally, I will include some lessons learned that should be useful for those just starting out as well as for more advanced practitioners.

Biography

Frode Odegard is a long-time entrepreneur and management consultant in the IT industry who has recently branched out into other areas as well.  He started his first software company while still attending high school in Norway, and subsequently immigrated to the United States in 1990, where he founded Odegard Labs, a software R&D lab.  His career gradually moved into teaching and consulting on software engineering best practices.  In 2004 he founded the Lean Software Institute, a management consulting firm dedicated to bringing Toyota’s Lean business methodology to the IT industry.

Frode has chaired industry conferences and participated in international standards work. He has helped a broad range of technology companies, including Sony Electronics Inc., Lockheed Martin, Honeywell Aerospace, Cardinal Health, AT&T Wireless, and Plantronics. Frode is currently in the process of launching three new ventures: an educational venture helping individuals get more out of their lives, an organizational learning consultancy, and a software company in the knowledge management space.

Frode’s interests outside work include history, languages, philosophy (Objectivism), art, mathematics, psychology, skydiving, and strength training. He lives in San Diego, California, surrounded by beautiful models, expensive cars, luxury yachts, and fine wines. (Okay, that last sentence isn’t 100% true, just checking if anyone really reads until the end..)

Frode Odegard