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🔝 The easy road to become a TOP performer software engineer: Simplifying productivity

Overwhelmed by endless to-do lists? Learn how the "Big Three" method helps software engineers focus on high-impact tasks for maximum productivity.

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Fran Soto
Dec 08, 2024
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Every software engineer knows the feeling: Starting the week with ambitious goals, only to watch the hours slip away as tasks come and go.

Long to-do lists create a false sense of productivity, moving us away from meaningful progress. We increase our busyness instead of our business impact.

There’s a better way. Instead of juggling a dozen tasks, focus on just three: the three most impactful tasks of the day. This shift aligns your daily efforts with your career growth and team success.

I know this sounds like the typical advice from a random productivity book. But it has benefits you may not have expected.

⭐ In this post you’ll learn

  • How to ensure you make progress by doing fewer things.

  • The importance of using your hours based on your energy level instead of treating all hours as equal

  • Strategies to track and measure outcomes, like sprint points or PRs merged, to ensure you are always meeting expectations.

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