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5 #+TITLE: Org Effectiveness Tutorial
6 #+AUTHOR: David Arroyo Menéndez
7 #+EMAIL: davidam@es.gnu.org
10 #+CATEGORY: worg-tutorial
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20 In the Personal Software Process, we attend to the tasks in the
21 estimated time, but few times we attend to effectiveness,
22 understanding by effectiveness, the tasks done comparising the
25 The formal educative process try evaluate with respect to solve exams,
26 that is, quizes or another academic tests and some times training
27 exercises, although, few times the student knows if execute your own
28 personal objectives: what is the reason because I've started to study
29 something if I've learn it or don't. Finally, someone knows if learn
30 things because has been able to make. The idea presented in this
31 tutorial is a software to everyone can be evaluted to himself in
32 function to his own personal objectives. We can say that measure the
33 effectiveness is know if we are honest whith ourselves.
37 Currently, org-effectiveness.el is stored in contrib, you can download worg with:
42 $ git clone https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode.git
45 You can find org-effectiveness.el in ~/git/org-mode/contrib/lisp
47 So, you can add the next line (or similar) in your .emacs
49 (load "~/git/org-mode/contrib/lisp/org-effectiveness.el")
52 If you want use the plot feature, you must install gnuplot, for instance in debian, you can do:
54 $ apt-get install gnuplot
59 To measure the effectiveness we can count tasks done and tasks
60 cancelled, but perhaps you want count the tasks pending or tasks in
61 another state, so we've built some functions to it.
63 With org-effectiveness-count-keyword, we can count an outline in an
64 state (keyword) given. For example:
67 M-x org-effectiveness-count-keyword TODO
70 Usually, anyone will be using the next states: TODO, CANCELED and DONE
71 at least, so we can use
74 M-x org-effectiveness-count-todo
75 M-x org-effectiveness-count-done
76 M-x org-effectiveness-count-canceled
81 The calculus that I propose to know if someones is effectiveness is
82 very simple is enough dividing the number of tasks DONE with the
83 CANCELED. So, we can know the total effectiveness in the current
90 We can know, the effectiveness in a specific date with
93 M-x org-effectiveness-in-date
96 Writing the date in the format YYYY-MM-DD.
101 Make an only task in one month is not very difficult, if you only want
102 make one task is ok, you are 100% effectiveness, but the people is
103 ambitious, the companies want reach many task, without cancel anything.
105 We can consider that measure our productivity is only measure the
106 tasks done in a period of time (see [[ref1][1]]). For example, in a month:
109 M-x org-effectiveness-dones-in-date
114 We can deploy a *gnuplot graph* to know the effectiveness in the current
115 buffer by months with:
118 M-x org-effectiveness-plot
121 We can deploy an *ascii graph* to know the effectiveness in the current
122 buffer by months with:
125 M-x org-effectiveness-plot-ascii
130 1. <<ref1>> Barry W. Boehm, TRW (1987) Improving Software Productivity
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