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Just-In-Time PM #4: Intermediate Packets - Forte Labs

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In Part 3, I argued that having a personal knowledge base is the linchpin of success in a creative economy. A knowledge base allows you to reuse past work, draw from past experiences, share your knowledge in concrete form, and eventually, build products and services out of that knowledge. This requires strategically structuring your work in the first place, as a series of what I call intermediate packets. Instead of delivering one big lump of value at the very end, you stage your progress in a series of short, intense sprints, ending each one with a tangible, intermediate deliverable, like a set of notes, a brainstorm, a series of examples, an outline, a prototype, or a draft. The first benefit of working this way is that you become interruption-proof. Because you rarely even attempt to load the entire project into your mind all at once, there’s not much to “unload” if someone interrupts you. It’s much easier to pick up where you left off, because you’re not trying to juggle all the wo

Just-In-Time PM #4: Intermediate Packets - Forte Labs Skip to content Just-In-Time PM #4: Intermediate Packets BY Tiago Forte PUBLISHED May 20, 2018 UPDATED June 10, 2022 Est. reading time: 4 min Series Navigation: Just-In-Time Project Management >">Just-In-Time PM #5: The Iron Triangle >> In Part 3 , I argued that having a personal knowledge base is the linchpin of success in a creative economy. A knowledge base allows you to reuse past work, draw from past experiences, share your knowledge in concrete form, and eventually, build products and services out of that knowledge. This requires stra

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