The Heaps and Stacks Process

A Simple alternative to Kanban board for personal productivity

While Kanban is great for collaborative work, this one is simple and very powerful for personal efficiency. When you have your don’t disturb cap on, nothing cuts through deep work backlog like the Heaps and Stacks process.

This is the heart of the 0x80 productivity system, which includes additional help to keep focused one the work in a sustainable way.

start with the Heap

• Note things on the a heap.
• One heap per topic
• complete the heap with the dependencies and prerequisites

stack the Stack

• start with the end in mind
• What is the last step just before the end result
• what comes just before that
• … proceed until you back track to your current situation

do the work.

• Pop the first element of the stack.
• Pop and do until the stack is empty